where to host web server

[Steve G.]

1. Where do I go to produce meth? Any such public domain labs in Haifa? Tel
Aviv?

2. Joking aside, there have been cases (in the US) where chemists in
industry and academe have produced drugs (predates meth) for commercial
purposes.

3. Regardless, there is a difference between getting an experience in
programming and hosting a live web site. A student can create lots of
stuff, including services, which as long as they reside on the internal
network are not a risk, while opening them to outside use can create a
problem.

Easiest example - a server with poor password. If you are in the intranet,
and someone hacks into it and runs a DDOS on a local server, the admin will
shut the offending server down and that's the end of it. Ditto for an error
that creates infinite processing or broadcast loops. Do it to the outside
world, and you'll have the authorities at your door.

A second example - unauthorized content. Host kiddy porn on your internal
account, and you'll be suspended (or your account closed till it is
secured). Have an external hacker serving same from your university server,
and you - and your institution and amin - will have to account to Interpol.

You get my drift - some things are better left outside, where
responsibility is the student's and the ISP's and not the Technion.

Z.

On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 6:59 AM, Nadav Har'El <nyh at math.technion.ac.il>wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 21, 2012, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda wrote about "Re: where to host
> web server":
> > This will also not blacklist the Technion with regards to other mail
> > servers, and enable error-free monitoring of wild SMTP servers (viral
> ones).
>
> Next thing you know, the Technion's chemistry department will close down
> its labs, since students can use them to produce meth... If a student
> wants to actually do a chemistry experiment, he can rent a table in
> a nearby chemistry-lab-for-hire, and do it there.
>
> People come to the Technion to learn. To learn, you need to be allowed
> to experiment. If certain students choose to experiment with illegal
> things, let them be caught - but don't ban all experimentation.
>
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Steve

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