As an IT guy for the Navy for the last 8 years, I can tell you that we use satellite technology for internet access. Every crewmember on nearly every ship has an email address. Most of the smaller ships get web access and all that stuff. They like to block ports for IRC and so forth as to keep mission sensitive material from leaving the ship. Not that you can't email it out, but I think they can filter email on it's way out. As for larger ships like carriers and so forth, I know they pretty much restrict everyone to just email. Most CO's, XO's, and Department Heads get full web access... These restictions are due to the fact that a carrier gets a lot of tactical data which sucks the bandwidth. But there are ways around it.. bring the right tools with you and you can get your full access. (: Most Navy IT guys only know what IT school taught them. Very few of them are 31337. Also.. we get the SIPRNET(Secret Internet Protocol Routing NETwork) on board ship, which rocks. Any of you ever surfed the classified internet?
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As an IT guy for the Navy for the last 8 years, I can tell you that we use satellite technology for internet access. Every crewmember on nearly every ship has an email address. Most of the smaller ships get web access and all that stuff. They like to block ports for IRC and so forth as to keep mission sensitive material from leaving the ship. Not that you can't email it out, but I think they can filter email on it's way out. As for larger ships like carriers and so forth, I know they pretty much restrict everyone to just email. Most CO's, XO's, and Department Heads get full web access... These restictions are due to the fact that a carrier gets a lot of tactical data which sucks the bandwidth. But there are ways around it.. bring the right tools with you and you can get your full access. (: Most Navy IT guys only know what IT school taught them. Very few of them are 31337. Also.. we get the SIPRNET(Secret Internet Protocol Routing NETwork) on board ship, which rocks. Any of you ever surfed the classified internet?