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Re: Regarding NDU.EDU

  • From: Fergie
  • Date: Tue Jan 02 19:28:32 2007

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Sure. That's what it is: "architectural changes".

I heard the Naval War College was doing that, too. :-)

 http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/12/mystery_hacker_.html

- - ferg

- -- "Chris L. Morrow" <[email protected]> wrote:

On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:

> > They  took their systems offline a few weeks ago:
> >  http://www.fcw.com/article97160-12-19-06-Web

> Right -- something's definitely going on on that part of the world.
> See http://fcw.com/article97178-12-22-06-Web which talks about how DoD
> is banning HTML email (what a wonderful thought in any event!) and
> Outlook Web Access.  Why?  The threat level has been raised from
> Information Condition 5 to Information Condition 4 -- but they won't
> say why....

why terrorists of course... :) in all seriousness, perhaps they are doing
some architectural changes to better secure their perimeter in light of
(as the hawaii.edu gentleman pointed out) the internet becoming more and
more critical to the common person?

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