This doesn't surprise me, most of the computers and other equipment in the research facility I work at are directly hooked up with Ethernet. The university mana

This doesn't surprise me, most of the computers and other equipment in the research facility I work at are directly hooked up with Ethernet. The university manages it's own IP block but doesn't have any oversight over what goes on, no firewall. Most of the security is in the router which connects to the same network students on campus use. I've heard horror stories like the 2nd floor printer which was hijacked and turned into a porn server, researchers locked out of compromised equipment (worth millions). I spent months hardening my system and setting up my own local network after my first Linux box was rooted days after hooking it up (probably hours).