Re: Be careful with your iPhone.

On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, John Kim wrote:
[snip]

> It's not the intended use, but I know some people that use the campus
> VPN service (http://www.net.berkeley.edu/vpn/) not to access the campus
> restricted resources, but mainly to secure their connection between the
> open AP they're using and the internet. I may or may not receive some
> flak from the nice folks maintaining the VPN service, depending on their
> point of view, but the way I see it, keeping everyone's laptop secure
> when they're not on the Berkeley network will keep Berkeley network more
> secure, especially considering how many of these laptops will come back
> and connect to the Berkeley network. (BTW, if you do choose to (ab)use
> the VPN service, make sure to use the full tunnel instead of the split
> tunnel.)

I don't work for IST, but I actually think that's a totally appropriate
use of a VPN. The major downsides are that it increases VPN load and
Berkeley's commodity net connection bill, but I don't think it would be
that considerable.

Could you go into more detail how you'd consider such use to be abuse?

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Tom Maher       | EECS Dept, 331 Soda Hall, Univ. of California, Berkeley
+1-510-717-4190 | Berkeley, CA, 94720-1776
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