[45478] in Cypherpunks
Re: .PWL spin
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin L Prigge)
Fri Dec 15 21:15:11 1995
From: Kevin L Prigge <Kevin.L.Prigge-2@cis.umn.edu>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 14:01:31 -0600 (CST)
In-Reply-To: <199512151829.KAA13449@jobe.shell.portal.com> from "anonymous-remailer@shell.portal.com" at Dec 15, 95 10:29:54 am
According to rumor, anonymous-remailer@shell.portal.com said:
>
>
> On Sat, 9 Dec 1995, Joel McNamara wrote:
>
> > One system administrator said the problem would have a greater effect on
> > less-secure environments, such as universities and other institutions,
> > than on corporations.
>
> I didn't quite understand the "corporate speak" here. It sounds like
> something coming from Bosnia or something. It's Greek to me.
>
> What would make a University less secure than a corporation??
1) Usually more net connected hosts.
2) Lack of adequate sysadmin attention/knowlege.
3) Vague and poorly enforced site security policies.
This is of course a generalization, but corporations seem to
have more money and time to throw at security. On the other
hand, it's common at Universities to get a new Sun/SGI/whatever,
hook it to the net, and run it without spending a lot of time
configuring it.
>
> Universities (at least the ones, I've checked) have entire departments
> and theoreticians devoted to Computers ... companies usually don't.
Just because a University has a CS department doesn't mean that it
is more secure. Even if security is an area of study, it doesn't
mean that other departments benefit from the research.
>
> I'd think that Universities are much, much more secure environments than
> corporations are. Doesn't Microsoft know this?? Or is this unique to
> Seattle??
I don't know what University sites you're referring to, my experience
has been that on the average, .edu sites are less secure than .com
sites.
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