[Nottingham] LAN party Sunday

[Martin]

Michael Erskine wrote:
> On Friday 07 October 2005 10:21, Martin wrote:
> 
>>And yes, its open door so people are free and safe to wander in at any
>>time.
> 
> And wander out with our kit :)
> 
> Seriously: perhaps we should put some thought into physical security. 

Its an upstairs room, so a thief would have to be very brazen. There's 
only two points of entry/exit so easily guarded. We just ensure someone 
not blinded by gaming is always on hand at the "welcome desk".


> I would also like there to be some ground rules laid down regarding LAN 
> security including but certainly not limited to no uninvited access to 
> people's machines beyond, say, the odd ping - we don't want portscans and 
> vulnerability exploits to prove HaX0r skillz on fellow participants' precious 
> kit, especially when a lot of this kit usually resides behind protective 
> firewalls in comfy safe environments.
> 
> The basic tenet is "do as you would be done by" (I don't wanna be "done" by 
> some script kiddie!) and the old classic "And it harmest none, do what thou 
> wilt" - it is a party after all!

We'll have to do our own policing.

The internet connection is directly out to the 'big bad net'. If someone 
can set up a firewall, then very good. Worse case, I could set something 
up with shorewall on my fileserver box. I'll see if I can dig up a spare 
nic from somewhere.


See you folks there tomorrow (Sunday).

Should be good,

Cheers,
Martin

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Martin Lomas
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