Kind of stereotypical question on my final exam last night!!!

[steppinthrax]

So I?m on my Masters program, taking my Computer Security Final last night. On the very last couple of pages (pg 26 - 30!!!) of the exam the professor presented us with a situation where a corporation within the United States must extend part of their network to Canada, A local University and a ?Coalition Network? that will participate in providing or using their services. Anyway, the case presents that the Accountants of this US Company are concerned about security because some of the members of the ?Coalition Network? aren?t even U.S. Citizens!!!!!!!! So he provided a diagram of how the various ?bubbles? are situations and where we would place security mitigation devices (i.e. firewall, IDS, PKI, Encryption, etc?)
I believe the sentence was something like.

?The Accountants of ECS are nervous about the possible security risk of the extension to the coalition network; some of the members within this network are not even U.S. Citizens!!!!!? (yes there was about 4 exclamation pts there)


So I?m thinking to myself, the Canadian network doesn?t contain U.S. citizens as well. But, I guess since they are Canadian you can trust them more???? LOL

 

[venkman]

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[herm0016]

hate to tell you, but thats not racist or discriminatory.... is it racist to protect your network from an unknown? i dont think so.

 

[MixMasterTang]

So Canadian is a race now?

 

[Capt Caveman]

That's not racist. Please look-up the definition of racism.

 

[darkxshade]

Originally posted by: steppinthrax
So I?m on my Masters program, taking my Computer Security Final last night. On the very last couple of pages (pg 26 - 30!!!) of the exam the professor presented us with a situation where a corporation within the United States must extend part of their network to Canada, A local University and a ?Coalition Network? that will participate in providing or using their services. Anyway, the case presents that the Accountants of this US Company are concerned about security because some of the members of the ?Coalition Network? aren?t even U.S. Citizens!!!!!!!! So he provided a diagram of how the various ?bubbles? are situations and where we would place security mitigation devices (i.e. firewall, IDS, PKI, Encryption, etc?)
I believe the sentence was something like.

?The Accountants of ECS are nervous about the possible security risk of the extension to the coalition network; some of the members within this network are not even U.S. Citizens!!!!!? (yes there was about 4 exclamation pts there)


So I?m thinking to myself, the Canadian network doesn?t contain U.S. citizens as well. But, I guess since they are Canadian you can trust them more???? LOL

Maybe it's because of that?

 

[Bulk Beef]

Your prof wears a white hood and burns crosses after class. Fo sho.

 

[Deviant Grasshopper]

Sounds like a legitimate question to me. Network security and interfacing with other networks is a huge deal, and you'll have to learn to make the call as to whether or not it's the right thing to do. Personally, if they aren't US citizens then I wouldn't let them to connect with my network either.

 

[DisgruntledVirus]

Originally posted by: venkman
you just wasted 20 seconds of my life

i just wasted 10 seconds replying to this

i just wasted another 5 secconds typing the above line

oh crap! i just wasted another 8 seconds typing the above line!


THIS WILL NEVER END! I'm STUCK IN AN INFINITE LOOP!

I just wasted 14 seconds of my life typing the above line.

So I wasted 45 seconds reading this thread and replying to it.

 

[steppinthrax]

Originally posted by: Deviant Grasshopper
Sounds like a legitimate question to me. Network security and interfacing with other networks is a huge deal, and you'll have to learn to make the call as to whether or not it's the right thing to do. Personally, if they aren't US citizens then I wouldn't let them to connect with my network either.

I guess I would think that if he also included the Canadian's in his definition of "non-U.S. Citizens".

Considering that your connecting to a Univeristy as well. I would think if someone is a US citizen or not is irrelavent. Many universities in the US have pretty open enviroments where a person can simply hit up a computer terminal from off the street....

 

[darkswordsman17]

Originally posted by: Capt Caveman
That's not racist. Please look-up the definition of racism.

Where are you pulling racism from? What I mean is where are you getting that the OP is talking about racism?

Did the OP edit it out? He did, bastard.

 

[darkxshade]

The only thing that's racist about it is YOU!!!... You're the one who's on the masters program... what? ... plan on owning some slaves?

 

[darkxshade]

Originally posted by: darkswordsman17

Originally posted by: Capt Caveman
That's not racist. Please look-up the definition of racism.

Where are you pulling racism from? What I mean is where are you getting that the OP is talking about racism?

OP edited title from racist to stereotypical

 

[Capt Caveman]

Originally posted by: darkswordsman17

Originally posted by: Capt Caveman
That's not racist. Please look-up the definition of racism.

Where are you pulling racism from? What I mean is where are you getting that the OP is talking about racism?

The OP changed the title of his thread and OP to not look like more of an idiot.

 

[Tim]

Originally posted by: DisgruntledVirus

Originally posted by: venkman
you just wasted 20 seconds of my life

i just wasted 10 seconds replying to this

i just wasted another 5 secconds typing the above line

oh crap! i just wasted another 8 seconds typing the above line!


THIS WILL NEVER END! I'm STUCK IN AN INFINITE LOOP!

I just wasted 14 seconds of my life typing the above line.

So I wasted 45 seconds reading this thread and replying to it.

And I've wasted an entire 1:24.