Originally Posted by
jurupa 
Lets see, you can always not obey the rules, but if they find out you can run into trouble. Or you can hack your way thru it, but most college networks on well known colleges, tend to have good security measures in place.
no thanks to that. i had remote access to my high school's network (and administrator priveleges) through some hacking, and they server admin caught my ip address when i vnc'd into the server while he was working on it. i got caught, it is all a secret, but no serious punishments. i am guessing it is a bit more extreme in college, i.e: they expel you? not that i would need to do any of that anyways... i can configure the router to make it look like it is my computer and not distributing ip addresses (which i think is how they'd find out)
Originally Posted by
jurupa lilwing I have no idea why your pissed off about this. If you know anything about computer security, you would know colleges, tend to run on older equipment and do not upgrade it alot and so a lot of times newer tech can mess up their network or cause problems for the end user, being you the student using the network. They also want to keep virus and what have you off the network, and the best way to do that is require anti-virus programs. Ya you can say you avoid getting such things, but someone with less computer knowledge may not.
i do not like being *forced* to install software to my computer. i should not have to install it to my computer because we have to pay for the internet service. i specifically do not antivirus software on my computer because i see it as ineffective. being that it is not only symantic, but a customized version (by the university) i do not trust it and believe there are trojans and things that they can use to log my computer activity. i am not so pissed at the router thing, because i understand why they want to have full control over ip distribution.
at orientation we were on the computers several times throughout the day. they have newer equipment (running a windows server, all windows xp computers, not to vista yet) i did a little bit of background research while they were giving lectures and stuff. i know what kind of security software their using and everything.
anyhow, thanks, i think i will contact them to ask about all that. perhaps they will even allow me to use a router to connect all my shit.