Re: Types of firewall... [OT]

From: Eirik Seim (eirik_at_mi.uib.no)
Date: 03/30/05

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    On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 21:33:51 +0100, bensmyth wrote:
    > Going OT....
    >
    > > > > At present there doesn't seem to be very many universities doing a great
    > > > > deal at undergraduate level in the security domain. The majority of
    > > > > establishments that do, are considered lower academically. At PhD level
    > > > > there are slightly more opportunities....
    > > >
    > > > They can't teach something they don't practice :)
    > >
    > > Luckily, it's not the students (at least not the undergrads) who
    > > teach :)
    >
    > Not strictly true...
    > At Birmingham second year students may teach first years and MSc's teach
    > second years (I'm not sure if third years teach second years). Although
    > the teaching tends to be in `excercise classes' or programming `lab
    > sessions'.

    Yes, we've got the same here, I was thinking more like "responsible
    for the teaching of subject N". But anyways, I think it's a great
    way to learn. It's not only lectures and professors but also more
    like p2p...

    [snip]

    > > 800 different viruses is no record by the way. A kid at a local
    > > "LAN-party" (is that a well known term?) had several thousands
    > > before he started complaining about his computer running slow.
    >
    > I would assume these are non-Computer Science students.... (or at
    > least hope...)

    They would be more like 10-14 year old kids who slaughter online
    3D terrorists some 15hrs each day. I think they're more likely to
    become managers than someone who has to think for a living :)

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