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UC Berkeley Cleaning up its Security Act

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the case-studies-in-self-evaluation dept.

Bob Brown writes "UC Berkeley recently issued a scathing self-assessment of its IT department, which has been under fire in the wake of a couple of high profile security lapses at the school. NetworkWorld has a review of what the school's top networking guy says is being done to both secure and strengthen UC Berkeley's computer networks."

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  1. The Article by zaguar · · Score: 4, Funny

    Security... NEXT PAGE
    has lapsed... NEXT PAGE
    but we are... NEXT PAGE
    doing our best... NEXT PAGE
    trying to... NEXT PAGE
    improve. END ARTICLE

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  2. Faulty Password Protection by Xaositecte · · Score: 2, Funny

    Obviously they haven't been rotating their passwords frequently enough, just force everyone to change theirs every three weeks and all security problems will be solved!

    1. Re:Faulty Password Protection by linj · · Score: 2, Funny

      You'll end up with cycling passwords of "hello" and "password" every three weeks.

  3. From TFA by graemecoates · · Score: 3, Funny
    Both have incredible amounts of data. As for clustering, there are a few computational clusters already around campus for traditional math, physics, astrology
    Good to see they know what the networks are *really* being used for...
  4. Astrology cluster? by Kadin2048 · · Score: 2, Funny

    traditional math, physics, astrology

    I really want to know what goes on in the astrology cluster. Can you really parallelize reading the tarot? I wonder what kind of hardware they use; a giant Magic 8-Ball array? And what kind of qualifications does a sysadmin have to have there?

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