Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-conference (40 mails)

[Bruno Friedmann <bruno@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 09/01/2011 10:57 AM, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> On Wednesday, August 31, 2011 23:09:31 Bruno Friedmann wrote:
> > On 08/31/2011 10:06 PM, Pascal Bleser wrote:
> > > On 2011-08-31 14:24:56 (+0200), Michael Matz <matz@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 31 Aug 2011, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> > > > > The Wifi network is called "osc11 Zentrifuge", the PSK key will be
> > > > > "Have a lot of fun!"
> > > >
> > > > Bah.  Why do we have to encrypt it?  It's not that there are many
> > > > other
> > > > people around Zentrifuge at that time stealing our bandwidth. 
> > > > Security
> > > > concerns with so many people certainly can't be the reason.
> > >
> > > +1
> > >
> > > There is no security anyway: if you use the network, you don't
> > > own the access points, hence you cannot expect wire level
> > > security in the first place.
>
> Still, there are people working in Zentrifuge and others around it - and 
> there 
> have been some strange court rulings about open networks (in case that people 
> downloaded illegal stuff, like copyrighted), so I'm reluctant and like to 
> lower the risk for us.
>
> > > Just make it open, less hassle :)
> > >
> > > cheers
> >
> > Apart if the sponsor ask you to push a wpa2 psk key
> > We won't bother them, ask just them to let at least ssh+irc+openvpn open
>
> For sure no blocking.
>  
> > the key is nice anyway :D
>
> Yep,
> Andreas

One question more about our internet access.
Should we have, do will have an simple transparent http proxy ?

As most of us will abuse gmail.com, *.opensuse.org this would help each other 
to save some bandwidth.

Feedback welcome.


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