[I seem to have forgotten to send this.]
| From: Peter King via talk <[email protected]>
| Can't say that I disagree with any of this. I protested when the UofT decided
| to amalgamate all its services on Microsoft Server (to no avail), and even
| more so when they made it all but impossible not to use Outlook (after using
| mutt happily for years and years) - on the grounds that Outlook somehow had
| "more modern" security, which turned out to be doublespeak for "proprietary
| closed-source protocols" for accessing the mailserver that they now
| controlled. Rewriting links and pushing their brand is the completely
| predicable result.
Hear hear!
I have (rarely used) courtesy accounts at U of T. I just tested.
Mail to me at cs.toronto.edu isn't touched by Microsoft. Postfix and
Exim only.
| Just recently I was told that the University would not allow me to ssh in to
| my office computer "because ssh had to be protected from the internet" (!),
Yuck. I can still ssh into the one U of T CS system I tried. I don't
know the current nodes that general CS users are supposed to use (it's
been that long).
| and instead I was supposed to use some binary blob to create a VPN into the
| UofT network
Open Standards! They should use IPSec and not require binary blobs of
unknown safety.
SSH is good as long as passwords are not used.
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