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Wartrapping?
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It's a legitimate and creative response to a legitimate and creative activity.
True technology evolves -- and this is how these 'environmental' networks will become secure, finally -- not through laws and threats against "hacking"....
That's exactly right. I'm in the IT department of this College (on the MAIN campus) and we have a very large library here and other libraries on other campuses (and the library search facilities online, etc.). The West Campus experiment is exactly that -- a research experiment. That campus was established to develop and test new methods of integrating technology with education; as it works out our telecomm and a couple of network degrees/programs fit the bill nicely for "guinea pigs", as it were.
I'm afraid the Wired article is causing some fallout here, especially in aour marketing dept.; it was an unauthorized attempt by that campus's [self- promoting] dean to gather some free publicity. It in no way reflects the overall mission or methodology of Des Moines Area Community College.
The fact is, we don't KNOW how the police got his password. And what if I (a US citizen) had also created an identical site (in Italian -- I doubt the Italian police worry about all those 'blasphemous' sites in English) -- would the police there still have the authority to crack into my US server and replace the content? How can we be sure that the user wasn't Italian American -- or that he had created and posted the site from the US?
There are too many details that are not represented in the stories we've gotten about this to say 'it's no biggie'...
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True technology evolves -- and this is how these 'environmental' networks will become secure, finally -- not through laws and threats against "hacking"....
I'm afraid the Wired article is causing some fallout here, especially in aour marketing dept.; it was an unauthorized attempt by that campus's [self- promoting] dean to gather some free publicity. It in no way reflects the overall mission or methodology of Des Moines Area Community College.
Typical of Wired, though.
There are too many details that are not represented in the stories we've gotten about this to say 'it's no biggie'...