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According to Director of Residential Computing Kevin S. Davis ’98, these steps come as part of an ongoing series of security updates begun a few years ago with the replacement of insecure connection protocols, telnet and FTP, with their encrypted counterparts, ssh and SFTP...
...Macs are completely compatible with Harvard’s wireless network and with pine, with Harvard FTP, with everything you’d need to use here,” she says...
This new e-mail service comes on the heels of a new policy to allow only secure connections via telnet and FTP, starting April 17, though the release of Webmail is unrelated to that decision, Davis said...
Davis said the reason why traffic-shaping causes such problems is that it gives priority to well-known network traffic, such as web-browsing, Telnet and FTP traffic. Any outgoing information that is not so well known by the server is sent into a pending cue, where it waits until there is a lull in overall network traffic...
...within the network--has led to a congestion of sorts. File-sharing is one prominent source of such traffic; students who share their music collection through Napster utilize bandwidth even when they aren't the ones who are actively downloading. The same holds true for hosting a website or FTP server. Since bandwidth is a finite resource, it acts in many ways like a highway. Increases in traffic lead to congestion, which in turn leads to a general slowdown and lots of angry users...