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


From: David Warner <dwarner01 () WESLEYAN EDU>
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 10:44:53 -0500

I would think CALEA would have some impact on open access ports also...


David Warner, CCNA
Network Specialist

Wesleyan University


At 10:23 AM 12/21/2006, you wrote:
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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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