[Ilugc] Breaking blocked access in my office
- From: lawgon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Kenneth Gonsalves)
- Date: Thu Jun 10 12:36:52 2010
On Thursday 10 June 2010 11:50:49 Akilan R wrote:
Organizations don't arbitrarily create rules. They are made because
of 1) govt compliance regulations, 2) IT security policies enforced
by their customers, and 3) industry best practices.
Not necessarily so. In India they are created out of ignorance or arrogance
on the part of network admins. See this:
for example when I joined NRC-FOSS, everything was blocked except email and
web browsing - no ssh, no IRC, no svn over http. And this is a research
institute with a strong FOSS component!
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regards
kg
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