Re: March 29, 2006 total eclipse - IT admin's WORST NIGHTMARE

From: Charles Newman (charlesnewman1_at_comcast.spamkiller.net)
Date: 10/08/05 

Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2005 05:12:41 -0700

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"Moe Trin" <ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld> wrote in message
news:slrndkdkv6.1p7.ibuprofin@compton.phx.az.us...
> In the Usenet newsgroup comp.security.firewalls, in article
> <di3m09$eu1$1@canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca>, Walter Roberson wrote:
>
> >In article <20051006170714.14995.qmail@nym.alias.net>,
>
> Ah, no wonder I didn't see this.
>
> >Owl Jolsen <owljolsen@nym.alias.net> wrote:
> >: And becuase we will be using an encrypted transmission over port
> >:80, admins in South America, Europe, and Africa will be unable to
> >:stop people from watching the eclipse without shutting down the
> >:ENTIRE network.
>
> >Well, it'll be the middle of the night for me, so I won't care,
> >but I know of several solutions that do not involve
> >"shutting down the ENTIRE network". But as you seem to enjoy
> >the prospect of "shutting down the ENTIRE network", you'll have
> >to excuse if I don't post the solutions, so as not to give you
> >ideas.
>
> Sounds like the same troll who was posting about "IRC-based Olympic
> Coverage" last Christmas and "First new figure skating results coverage"
> in mid-January in this group. The wording, posting style, and concepts
> are similar. Obviously, the troll didn't learn anything in the past nine
> months.

I think as far as figure skating goes, they might not be just blowing hot
air. The United Skating Figure Skating Assn has inked a contract with
one company to provide secure and encrypted broadband access to
figure skating events under USFSA control, for an annual subscrption
fee of $300, or for $5 if you want to buy by the event.

This sounds like a subsidiary of thhis guy's company, and something they
just
might try. If it is a subsdiary of this guy's company, it appears
they just might pull off what they have been talking about here.
If they really are going to provide encrypted subscription
video access, via broadband, of figure skating events, it will
be that much harder to stop. With encrypted packets,
someone may well be able to sneak on and watch from
work, without the boss knowing about it. It appears that the
"worst nightmare" scenario of IT admins not being able to
stop it may very well take place.

This is one reason why, it I were a corporate IT admin, I would
get rid of any hardware firewalls the company was using, and
put my software-based firewall on the company network. It
would be able to stop this guy's stuff, where the hardware firewalls
could not. The is what he apparently cannot understand. Hardware
appliances do not have the flexibility to stop it, but my software based
system does.

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