Waterloo turns off Internet, cites security concerns
Posted by Jesse Rodgers on April 01, 2007 at 09:20 AM
Well it looks like this is my last post. Starting today the University will shut off its Internet connection due to security concerns. There was a move to simply remove all web browsers in favour of Lynx and firewall the campus so only port 80 worked but bandwidth concerns ended that.
“We just use too much internets,” states Yuri a network specialist in IST. “With the CS club choking the tubez and all the hackers from Romania attacking the networkz we need to just shut things down to protect us all from the internet.” Roger, Director of Networkz, adds “in the 24 years I have worked on networkz at UW it has been nothing but trouble, I think this will allow us to focus on core services.”
The faculty association has hinted that they will welcome this move as there has been concern that students are spending more time in Facebook than they are in Angel. They are even using MSN during class time.
With the loss of Internet it is anticipated that the productivity levels of all students, staff, and faculty should go up. I imagine the next surplus sale will attract many historical computing buffs looking for ancient network gear… ;)