[Discuss] Security

[feenberg at nber.org (Daniel Feenberg)]

On Wed, 2 Nov 2011, Dan Ritter wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 09:33:18PM -0400, dan at geer.org wrote:
>>
>>> Case in point: a few gigs back we got hit by Slammer on the inside
>>> of our firewalled network.  It wasn't ourselves.  It was a visiting
>>> vendor or some such who brought it in on his own laptop and it
>>> spread when he plugged it into our network.
>>
>> Not trying to open a rathole, but are any of ya'll dealing
>> with "consumerization"?  ("Bring-your-PC-to-work," etc.)
>
>
> Everyone wants to connect their iPad or phone... so we got a
> cheap cable modem from Comcast, wired up a WiFi router, and
> let them play.

You don't really need a separate uplink - just connect the visiting 
hardware upstream of the firewall.

Daniel Feenberg
NBER

>
> No more privileges than a Starbucks. Highly recommended.
>
>
> -dsr-
>
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