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March 8, 2006

security

Putting your mouth where someone else’s network is

Posted Mar. 8, ’06, 6:43 PM PT by Derik DeLong
Category | Security

University of Wisconsin Dave Schroeder had the best of intentions when he threw down the gauntlet and set up his own version of the challenge. It’s too bad he didn’t get approval ahead of time. As written at the domain name of the challenge:

Yesterday we discovered the Mac OSX “challenge” was not an activity authorized by the UW-Madison. Once the test came to the attention of our CIO, she ended it. The site, test.doit.wisc.edu, will be removed from the network tonight. Our primary concern is for security and network access for UW services. We are sorry for any inconvenience this has caused to the community.

It’s too bad we’ll never know the results.


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