Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Internet Friendly Cruise Lines?

Posted by Cliff on from the for-those-that-can't-exist-10'-from-their-browsers dept.

ttyp0 asks: "The team of upper management at my company, including myself want to take a week long cruise vacation together. Unfortunately, being away from the office and unable access the Internet is terrifying in the case of an emergency. Are there any cruise lines that provide internet access in the cabins (ethernet jack)? If you've been on a cruise recently, who do you recommend?" Those boats are big enough, you figure at least one of the larger cruise lines have thrown a modest satellite and a small Internet cafe on one by now.

1 of 43 comments (clear)

  1. Re:DUH by ZenJabba1 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Actually no, they have no idea.

    I can tell you the most you will get is a web browser with that is only allowed on port 80 and 443, through a proxy. Basically its used to browse the web and nothing else. We tried to get them to open up more ports (to allows Citrix for example) and not a chance!. Too much of a security risk.

    Is it just me, but I am getting tired of everything I need to do being a security risk, and how can accessing my office computer via the Java Citrix client be a security risk. I think its more that they have non-technical people onboard who don't know or care about the issues

    --
    `find / -name "*your_base*" -exec chown us:us {} \;`