Hi Corrado, On 07/05/2009, bardo <ilbardo@gmail.com> wrote:
That said, I once managed, as a student, to meet the whole IT team in my university, and in an official encounter I demanded to open at least some more ports... You see, there are exams where you *have* to use CVS/SVN for your projects, and the ports are filtered out from the inside. It's not an annoyance, it's just plain stupid: you often work with people who live very far from the city and you can't work together at the university. In fact. This is the same reply which I expect from they, anyway I will try to talk with IT team of my university.
Well, they refused to open ports citing legislations, the need to filter p2p apps, the heaviness of level 7 filters... Heck, we didn't even have IMAP! I told them that, with https open, we could tunnel everything where we wanted. They know it and don't care, because it's a really small niche of students that can do it. I can assure you that I was very, very tempted to write an easy to use tunneling app and publish it for all the students to use. I tried some application as proxytunnel but with no results, but I will try again...and again...
PS. s/partially/partly!!!! LOL -- Andrea `BaSh` Scarpino Arch Linux Developer