From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Tue May 07 2002 - 13:14:12 MDT
On Tuesday, May 7, 2002, at 06:00 am, KPJ wrote:
>
> |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.
>
> ARPANET was interconnected to the TYMNET.
> TYMNET could be accessed via X.25 from just about everywhere.
> A number of hackers used X.25 PADs to access ARPANET that way from
> Sweden.
Very true. My statement weren't meant to imply that hackers couldn't
get in. I was talking about who was "allowed" in. Arpanet, Darpanet,
Milnet and the like were not originally supposed to be assessible by the
general public. They were built for military and then later academic
use. It was really controversial when it became officially connected to
commercial ISPs.
-- Harvey Newstrom, CISSP <www.HarveyNewstrom.com> Principal Security Consultant <www.Newstaff.com>
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