Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:34:41PM -0700: > On Mar 11, 2008, at 10:16 PM, Wade Curry wrote: > > >Maybe it isn't obvious how that person's streaming video is being > >affected. Maybe it isn't obvious that the person is trying to get > >some work done quickly over a VPN. It /is/ obvious the bandwidth > >was paid for and belongs to someone else. Not mine. That's all a > >civilized human needs to know. > > Anyone working at home via a VPN should be smart enough (or well > enough supported from their work environment) to have configured, or > have configured for them, a reasonably secure and access-restricted > WiFi network in their house. > > At my last place of employment, full-time telecommuters (with work- > provided PCs) had their "work" computer hard-wired behind a hardware > VPN router, completely segregated from the rest of their home > network. Occasional-use telecommuters were asked to bring their > wireless router in so we could make sure it was configured securely, > and we'd happily help them set up their other systems to work with the > secure settings, too. I think it was a good policy, and the employees > who took advantage of it were glad for the help.
Yes, that would be the responsible thing to do. I don't see that it would justify using their bandwidth if they haven't done so, though. We don't lock our homes and cars because we like them locked; we do so because we can't trust people not to break in and steal stuff. We don't encrypt files and partitions because we think it's an effective way to use the CPU and the storage; we do it because we can't trust people not to try and steal that data. We don't encrypt our wireless because we think it's fun to create and upgrade encryption methods all the time; we do it because we can't trust DJA not to connect to it. ;-) Wade Curry syntaxman -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
