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It's not supposed to be a hardened network that freaks out whenever anyone connects to it. Or is that the goal? To make MIT stop being so open?
by danielweber 14y ago
It's not supposed to be a hardened network that freaks out whenever anyone connects to it.
Or is that the goal? To make MIT stop being so open?
- kylec 14y agoI think that's a false dichotomy. It's possible to make the network and the attached services more resilient to a DoS without making it less open.
- mpyne 14y agoMaybe they could, I don't know, filter out requests from certain malicious MAC addresses? Start dropping packets from the wrong IP address? Surely that would suffice, right?
- cbs 14y agoOh please. Hardened systems and open access are not mutually exclusive. Pretending they are is the domain of untalented admins and those that wish to mislead you on reasoning for policy. Also, this is MIT, the biggest threats to their network live on campus and are poking around on that network every day.