Re: Public Access Library Ports (was Re: Open access to student labs

["Julian Y. Koh" <kohster () NORTHWESTERN EDU>]

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At 00:16 -0500 12/21/2006, Valdis Kletnieks wrote:
> What methods and/or reasoning did sites use to win the political
> battle (or equally interesting, did the library win)?

The library got sick of having the ports turned off whenever a compromised
computer attached to them.  Since they're all clustered together, the user
would then hop from port to port to port, getting them all shut off.


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