From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Mon May 06 2002 - 23:57:20 MDT
On Tuesday, May 7, 2002, at 12:27 am, Samantha Atkins wrote:
> Really? I don't remember it being all-military use. Many universities
> had stuff on it and the access wasn't that well controlled at all.
This is true. If you weren't working on a military project, you
probably didn't see any military stuff. However, Arpanet/Darpanet was
funded by the military. They didn't let sites on unless they had a
reason to connect to that site. Somebody at your university made it
worthwhile for the military to connect to that site.
It is also very true that it was not controlled very well at all. Back
then we didn't think about firewalls. Anyone was allowed on the network
if it was at their location, because it was believed that they could
only get into the machines they were allowed to use.
-- Harvey Newstrom, CISSP <www.HarveyNewstrom.com> Principal Security Consultant <www.Newstaff.com>
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Sat Nov 02 2002 - 09:13:52 MST