So, is everyone engaged in looting, vandalism or sending Anthrax around?
No?
Then, why bring it up in the first place?
Y'see, it's a pretty commong argumentative tactic - first present some examples which are actually pretty common (smoking pot) and then present other, more outrageous examples in the same argumentative vein. Which makes it sound as if when you agree to the first example (pot), you automatically agree to the second one (vandalism).
Pretty intellectually dishonest, if you ask me.
You can exclude the routes to update servers and redirect all http-traffic to a page stating just that.
Thus the customer can download antivirus software and get the latest patches, but still isn't allowed to wreak havoc unto the greater internet.
Should have clarified that - the network structure connecting and containing all the dorms (interdorm network, if you will), instead of only the network inside a single dorm (i.e. intradorm network)
... they're using an Exchange-Server for all the students' email. Fun parts include: You're only able to install a Forwarding rule if you use the Internet Explorer (otherwise the button for rules is simply not there - something their FAQ omits.) SMTP does not work at all for some strange reason. I finally tried to configure my Android phone to use the Exchange account as an additional email account. That worked.
However, whenever the screen went black to conserve power, I had to reenter my Exchange password to unlock the phone! With a nontrivial password containing special characters, numbers, small and big letters at a length of 10 characters, this became a serious pain in the ass. Normally, to unlock the phone I just have to swipe the on-screen button from right to left.
Needless to say, I quickly removed the Exchange account. And it was only a month later that I actually got an answer from them regarding my problems. So, if our university of incompetent morons Exchange server means that they could erase my data, I won't touch their offering with a ten-feet pole.
Fun fact: They're "offering" a user administration tool for all the dorms' routers based on PHP. This little "tool" does an include of remote PHP files based on the unsanitized GET request data. As a plus, this tool has to be run as root. Which means that any disgruntled dorm administrator could do a pretty powerful attack on nearly the whole dorm network infrastructure.
Yeah, sorry, was thinking of my dorm's situation where there's only one single physical connection to the cable network inside every room, no WiFi. Which means that it's (relatively) easy to track which room used which MAC adresses.
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So, is everyone engaged in looting, vandalism or sending Anthrax around?
No?
Then, why bring it up in the first place?
Y'see, it's a pretty commong argumentative tactic - first present some examples which are actually pretty common (smoking pot) and then present other, more outrageous examples in the same argumentative vein. Which makes it sound as if when you agree to the first example (pot), you automatically agree to the second one (vandalism).
Pretty intellectually dishonest, if you ask me.
You can exclude the routes to update servers and redirect all http-traffic to a page stating just that. Thus the customer can download antivirus software and get the latest patches, but still isn't allowed to wreak havoc unto the greater internet.
Should have clarified that - the network structure connecting and containing all the dorms (interdorm network, if you will), instead of only the network inside a single dorm (i.e. intradorm network)
... they're using an Exchange-Server for all the students' email. Fun parts include: You're only able to install a Forwarding rule if you use the Internet Explorer (otherwise the button for rules is simply not there - something their FAQ omits.) SMTP does not work at all for some strange reason. I finally tried to configure my Android phone to use the Exchange account as an additional email account. That worked. However, whenever the screen went black to conserve power, I had to reenter my Exchange password to unlock the phone! With a nontrivial password containing special characters, numbers, small and big letters at a length of 10 characters, this became a serious pain in the ass. Normally, to unlock the phone I just have to swipe the on-screen button from right to left. Needless to say, I quickly removed the Exchange account. And it was only a month later that I actually got an answer from them regarding my problems. So, if our university of incompetent morons Exchange server means that they could erase my data, I won't touch their offering with a ten-feet pole. Fun fact: They're "offering" a user administration tool for all the dorms' routers based on PHP. This little "tool" does an include of remote PHP files based on the unsanitized GET request data. As a plus, this tool has to be run as root. Which means that any disgruntled dorm administrator could do a pretty powerful attack on nearly the whole dorm network infrastructure.
Yeah, sorry, was thinking of my dorm's situation where there's only one single physical connection to the cable network inside every room, no WiFi. Which means that it's (relatively) easy to track which room used which MAC adresses.