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While this makes some sense, what happens if you plug your laptop into your roommates port? My university had a policy of disallowing students on the internal
by joelhaasnoot 15y ago
While this makes some sense, what happens if you plug your laptop into your roommates port?
My university had a policy of disallowing students on the internal network - there was wifi and some special network ports with red cables for students. A classmate had a virus and was tracked down and yelled at in class because he was also plugged into the internal network...
- keithpeter 15y agoThe FE College I teach at (not residential) has a 'guest' wifi for any device you want. Just internet access, no https let alone any other protocol. The teenagers mainly use it with their Blackberry phones to get on BBM :-) Full authentication is only for College owned devices, not sure how they are managing that.
- driverdan 15y agoNo SSL? That's a terrible way to run a network. SSL is very important when using open WiFi.
- joelhaasnoot 15y agoIt also emphasizes though that you shouldn't be doing anything long term or mission critical, but just for checking that one little thing...
- keithpeter 15y agoNo https because the College don't want students buying things over the College connection. Also stops me using Ubuntu launchpad in breaks