On Thursday 10 June 2010 11:50:49 Akilan R wrote: > > Organizations don't arbitrarily create rules. They are made because > > of 1) govt compliance regulations, 2) IT security policies enforced > > by their customers, and 3) industry best practices. > > Not necessarily so. In India they are created out of ignorance or arrogance > on the part of network admins. See this: >
for example when I joined NRC-FOSS, everything was blocked except email and web browsing - no ssh, no IRC, no svn over http. And this is a research institute with a strong FOSS component! -- regards kg http://livejournal.com/lawgon _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
