Adam Shostack writes:
> From: Adam Shostack <adam @
bwh .
harvard .
edu>
> Subject: Re: Advice on Firewall Politics
> To: mckenney @
smiley .
mitre .
org (Brian W. McKenney)
> Date: Wed, 18 May 94 12:02:32 EDT
> Cc: firewalls @
greatcircle .
com
> Sender: Firewalls-Owner @
greatcircle .
com
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>
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> It turns out that the big problem has not been external, but
> local. Quite a few students have attempted to break in. I strongly
> suspect that local attacks will be much more of a problem at small
> schools. Often, there isn't very much worth breaking into from the
> point of view of outsiders. This is the opposite of large, well known
> institutions like AT&T or banks, or even MIT, where the target has
> interesting stuff on their computers.
>
> At companies, the employer has control over every employee,
> and has a variety of disciplinary actions that they can take, up to
> and including firing &/or suing employees who violate their security
> policies. At a school, the institution has much less control over the
> students. Expulsions for hacking are close to unheard of, although I
> suspect that some will occur soon.
A college student here (at a community college) was recently convicted
of computer fraud (class 6 felony) for breaking into the school computer
(a rather unsecured VAX). Utimately he was expelled from that school
and is currently on probation.
--
Tom Brink
Technical Support Specialist
Arizona Department of Transportation
tom @
dot .
state .
az .
us
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