[BLU] Re: Wireless ethernet?

David Kramer david at thekramers.net
Tue Aug 14 11:21:02 EDT 2001


On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 ccb at valinux.com wrote:
> I was doing some work with MIT Bio a couple of months ago.  It's
> pretty entertaining - there is a univerity policy that there is no
> university-wide firewall.  Individual departments are encouraged to
> remain as open as possible to the network but to apply local
> perimeters as required.

I interviewed for a position at MIT's Project Athena (essentially their
intranet of computers around campus and in dorm rooms).  They told me
there were no firewalls because all the hackers were on the inside.  I
think that's a little naive, but it makes for a good joke.

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