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University security teams (if they exist at all) have enough trouble enforcing security policies with university employees without having students setting up un
by LogonType10 5y ago
University security teams (if they exist at all) have enough trouble enforcing security policies with university employees without having students setting up unauthorized devices. They don't want students running crappy vulnerable servers out of their dorm room, or pirating movies (the university gets a legal letter for that), or port scanning the network, or a whole host of other at best annoying things that aren't necessary to get an education. If you want to do that, rent your own infrastructure, or better yet practice that in a lab.
- lostlogin 5y agoHaving been caught without ID while working at a university site as a contractor, I'm 100% certain that a university somewhere has carted some poor sod off to university prison. They are like extra powerful mall cops.
- redis_mlc 5y ago1) When I do consulting for profs on campus, I ask for a uni library card. This is important because many students today are fearful of other people even when on campus transit with a driver, so you better have a verifiable reason why you should be there. 2) University cops in the US are usually real cops - armed and authorized to arrest or shoot you - not "mall cops."
- lostlogin 5y agoRe 2), it wasn’t in the US, but yikes.
- blip54321 5y agoI recall a lot of the things mentioned contributed significantly to the education of many of my peers from undergrad. If you assume your students are helpless immature idiots, it's kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy.