[committee] Fwd: FW: Notice ID: 214-3162539 Notice of Unauthorized Use of Metro Goldwyn Mayer Property

[James Andrewartha]

On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Jeremy Cole wrote:

> We can't actually do much about this, short of locking ugg and then saying stop torrenting off UCC's network we cant actually
> block encrypted torrenting. I know this will be killed because its Sam Spencer's idea, but why don't we set up a radius
> server for UGG (he can go into the technical ideas behind this) as this prevents any problems with people outside of UCC
> accessing our networks. If this isn't done then this is unstoppable as we can still lock it down (via WEP or WPA) but all it
> requires is one person to leak the password and then its back to square one. People will protect their current user access if
> we can track WHO creates traffic.
> I will bring this up at the (already busy) committee meeting as if this isnt actioned the ssoner or later ITS may act against
> us.

I've been interested in setting up authenticated wireless for a while, but 
never got around to it. We have a RADIUS server already for the PPTP VPN, 
so setting up Chillispot or similar is probably the way to go. 
http://wiki.ucc.asn.au/AdminProjects

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