Semi OT: Academic Firewall Rules

[David Collier-Brown]

York blocked very little when I worked there, as the Philosophy
Department expected profs and staff to have access to everything.
Student labs were not initially not connected to the outside, so in
effect they had access to nothing (:-))

Student residence networks were open where they existed, and we had a
bit of spam filtering tor all yorku.ca addresses.

Why do you ask?

--dave





On 05/21/2014 12:47 PM, William Witteman wrote:
> I have worked at a couple of Toronto institutions (U of T, George
> Brown) and currently work for a hospital in Québec (City).
>
> Hospitals are more restricted than Universities/Colleges.
> At the hospitals they tend to buy nanny-state firewalls off the shelf,
> which can provide reports and block file sharing, adult content and a
> wide range of other things (social networking, games, weapons, etc.)
>
> Universities tend to be more open and managed with other tools.  I
> know that at U of T they routinely scan for servers, vulnerabilities,
> file-sharers, but allow open web access but not SSH in some buildings.
>
> On 21 May 2014 12:28, Ansar Mohammed <ansarm-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> Hello All,
>> I apologize if this is off topic. I know there are a few guys who work
>> at major academic institutions in the GTA. I would like to get your
>> feedback.
>>
>> What are your policies for internet access for students and staff? i.e
>> * do you restrict based on services (e.g. block bittorrent etc)
>> * do you restrict based on content? (e.g. adult content)
>> * do you provide reports etc?
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