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

On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 10:37:28AM -0700, ken lindahl wrote:
> Mike Howard wrote:
> >Some departments are already slipping down the corporate firewall slope.
> >
> >The policy makers here in the Computer Science department now require us
> >to register web, email, and ftp servers; otherwise that inbound traffic
> >is blocked by their firewall.
>
> perhaps it is this CS policy, and not the campus minimum security standards,
> that got David Reed so fired up.

Perhaps.
He's still wrong.

It is notable that the Free Speech Movement wasn't asking for the
ability to say anything to anyone at any time; it was asking for very
specific, defined areas for students to express their opinions.

-- 
Tom Holub (tom_holub@LS.Berkeley.EDU, 510-642-9069)
Director of Computing, College of Letters & Science
249 Campbell Hall
<http://LS.berkeley.edu/computing/>
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