[ale] close to home

[Dan Newcombe]

On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, J.M. Taylor wrote:

> This is worrisome business, I just hope that not only UGA but the
> university system at large realizes that yes, it can happen to them and
> they *need* to take security seriously.  But I'm not holding my breath.

Uh...okay.  We do take it seriously.  Just unlike corporate america, you
can't just say "we are blocking everything but port 80 to our web server
and port 25 to our mail server.".

Just a couple of years ago, on this list, there was a student complaining
about some asshole administrator (me) who locked down some settings on a
machine that he noticed odd activity on.

What protocols out there now would not be there if the academic policy
everywhere was "screw any traffic we don't authorize." ???

How should we take security more seriously?  I'd like to hear some sane
suggestions.  Why don't you write your represenitive and tell them to stop
stealling money from the university system to pay for endless bitching on
flags, or whatever else?