Behind the Scenes at MIT's Network 118
BobB writes "MIT's head of computer networks and security gives an inside look at how the techie school is fending off hackers, cranking up its network to handle voice over IP and become a fiber network operator to link to other research institutions. From the article: 'Q - How do you actually enforce security standards among MIT's departments and network users? A - Enforce is not a word you can use at MIT. We try to entice people to do the right thing. We've made a lot of progress. We've removed the financial incentive to run your own network, which used to be cheaper than having us do it. We've been a cost-recovery network since forever now though. At many universities the network is free and they just fund it out of operating costs.'"
MIT on wireless security (Score:5, Funny)
What about dealing with wireless on campus these days?
We recently started surveying our community about what mobile devices they are using, how they are using them, etc. We have a team of people worrying about this.
enforce? (Score:3, Funny)
I like to rely on my friends Mr. Louisville and Mr. Slugger.
Only at MIT... (Score:3, Funny)
Wow, at MIT, even the *toilets* are servers? No wonder they have their own class A!
I'm not sure which disturbs me more (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Huh? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Huh? (Score:1, Funny)
I applaud your efforts to avoid 30 seconds of work, and especially the hour you've subsequently spent bitching about it.
Re:Only at MIT... (Score:4, Funny)
When the toilet server goes down the sh*t really hits the fan.
~Z
Re:Huh? (Score:2, Funny)
Looks like you were one of the people getting new keyboards.