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Although the firewall has met with much student concern, we trust HASCS to ensure that it is implemented with a minimum of disruption and in a way that is fair to all Harvard students. As long as exceptions are made for commonly used services such as instant messaging, most students will be unaffected by the change and may experience some benefit--an increase in security. But those students who access their computers remotely, use them to share files or are merely interested in networking will need an easily accessible means of escaping the firewall and restoring outside access...
...best alternatives could be the most legally vulnerable. Take Aimster, the Napster clone that relies on AOL's ever popular instant-messaging software. Download it (from Aimster.com) and you'll get an unseen extra layer to your buddy list, called a Buddyizer. This means that theoretically you can trade your MP3s with some 60 million "buddies." Hey, presto: an instant Napster-size network. As a bonus, Aimster currently searches Napster as well. "People already have thousands of MP3 files on AOL. All we did was add a search function," says Johnny Deep (his real name), 43, a software engineer...
...plan that's most worrisome. According to HASCS, the FAS network will soon be placed behind a broad "firewall" that would prevent the outside world from accessing data on students' computers. Ostensibly, HASCS plans to carve out certain exceptions so that the wall will be "transparent" for everyday usage. Instant-messaging and file-downloading, for example, will be unaffected. For students with more specialized computing needs, attending a short educational session about network usage will be enough to be exempt from the firewall altogether...
This would not stop Harvard students from surfing the Internet, checking their e-mail or using communication services like AOL Instant Messenger, but students home for the holidays would no longer be able to access programs and files on the Harvard network...
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