Back in the day, only Ph.D's used the internet, so they were the sysadmins.
These days, I recommend that system administration be only allowed for card-holding responsible people who have proven their technical abilities. Then, when you get awarded your Ph.D, they can take your sysadmin card back. On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 8:33 AM, Leo Bicknell <bickn...@ufp.org> wrote: > In a message written on Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 06:49:43AM -0800, Stephen > Satchell wrote: > > The NSF in particular ran the 'Net like bouncers do in a strip club: > > you break the rules, you go. No argument. > > I'm not sure I've ever seen a more inaccurate description of the NSF. > What in the world are you talking about? > > > The original trust model for the Internet was based on this unrelenting > > oversight. You didn't expect Bad Things(tm) because the consequences of > > doing them was so severe: banishment and exile. Also, the technical > > ability required to do Bad Things(tm) wasn't easily won. Accessing the > > 'Net was a PRIVILEGE, not a right. Abuse at your own peril. > > Oh wait, you took the BS to a new level. > > There was no banishment and exile. This was before we knew of buffer > overflows, spoofing, and so on. I remember the weekly sendmail buffer > overrun bugs, the finger back bombs, the rlogin spoofing attacks. > Turns out bored college students were very good at creating mischeff. > > There was no banishment. There were plenty of bad things. > > > Ok, I'll shut up now. > > Good plan. > > -- > Leo Bicknell - bickn...@ufp.org > PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ >
