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

[Brad Wake]

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 02:26:18PM +0900, James Andrewartha wrote:
> 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

Spectre and I were running a WPA Enterprise RADIUS AP here at work for a while with some success on a Netgear ADSL modem/router/AP. 'Some success' being defined here as 'it worked perfectly for anything Apple (laptop or iPhone), and certain wireless helper apps under Windows (the one that Dell includes I seem to recall having worked), but the standard Windows manager thingy would just whinge about there not being a certificate. Also it would randomly completely stop authenticating for no detectable reason, so we eventually just gave up and dropped back to WPA-PSK.