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Re: Regarding NDU.EDU

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fergie)
Tue Jan 2 19:26:19 2007

From: "Fergie" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 00:23:43 GMT
To: christopher.morrow@verizonbusiness.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


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Sure. That's what it is: "architectural changes".

I heard the Naval War College was doing that, too. :-)

 http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/12/mystery_hacker_.html

- - ferg

- -- "Chris L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@verizonbusiness.com> wrote:

On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:

> > They  took their systems offline a few weeks ago:
> >  http://www.fcw.com/article97160-12-19-06-Web

> Right -- something's definitely going on on that part of the world.
> See http://fcw.com/article97178-12-22-06-Web which talks about how DoD=

> is banning HTML email (what a wonderful thought in any event!) and
> Outlook Web Access.  Why?  The threat level has been raised from
> Information Condition 5 to Information Condition 4 -- but they won't
> say why....

why terrorists of course... :) in all seriousness, perhaps they are doin=
g
some architectural changes to better secure their perimeter in light of
(as the hawaii.edu gentleman pointed out) the internet becoming more and=

more critical to the common person?

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