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Behind the Scenes at MIT's Network
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.'"
FTA:
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.
How do you actually enforce security standards among MIT's departments and network users?
I like to rely on my friends Mr. Louisville and Mr. Slugger.
From the article: "our toilet server, which does voice mail and all the other crap, runs Asterisk software"
:-)
Wow, at MIT, even the *toilets* are servers? No wonder they have their own class A!
That MIT-level hackers (See Steven Levy's book) have direct, Class-A network access to the Internet, or that a school like MIT still doesn't get the idea of the network as an infrastructure utility rather than a cost-recovery service.
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
Are you kidding me? All he wanted was his old keyboard back. If somebody gave me one of those new keyboards with the vertical layout I would probably beat them around the head with it.
I totally agree with you. Much as with your example of the rotary phone, the world will pass this user by if he does not adapt to the new keyboard layout. This is precisely why the Western world was able to move beyond the inefficient QWERTY keyboard with only limited resistence.
I applaud your efforts to avoid 30 seconds of work, and especially the hour you've subsequently spent bitching about it.
If someone wanting thwe same keyboard gives you a bad sttitude, it's not the customer, it's you.
Looks like you were one of the people getting new keyboards.