Re: "TCP Port Lock-down" & Free-speech @ UCB

I second Tom's analysis of the situation. For a CS professor from MIT, you'd
think that he would know that of course "UC Berkeley now requires advance
permission to receive TCP connections at any port on any computer." For security
reasons we are moving to an all-UDP network, per RFC 666.

Ryan

On 5/4/2005 9:17 AM, Tom Holub wrote:

> The guy's an idiot. He doesn't understand what the policy is, and even if
> the policy was what he is claiming (which it isn't), it still wouldn't be
> a free speech issue; there is no content regulation at all.
>
> On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 09:20:57AM -0700, David Rieger wrote:
>
>>Claims are being made from a presumable academic & research perspective
>>that sysAdmins are contributing to the death of "free-speech" at UCB:
>>
>>[Basically by restricting ports - causing a diminution of freedom of
>>association and speech]
>>
>>
>>>"UC Berkeley now requires permission to receive TCP connections at any
>>>port on any computer. This policy is typical of "locked down"
>>>corporations, but now applies to all parts of UC Berkeley, including CS.
>>>
>>>So you might find this interesting.
>>>
>>>http://www.satn.org/archive/2005_05_01_archive.html#111521463872601897
>>
>>###End Quote###
>>
>>Discussion? Response?
>>
>>If there is a response, thank you for a communal effort to clarify.
>>
>>
>>david rieger
>>
>>
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Ryan L. Means
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University of California, Berkeley
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