Re: FW: Skype allowance

[Elliot Kendall <ekendall () BRANDEIS EDU>]

On 2007-06-07 11:21:35 -0500, Kutil, Charlie D. wrote:
> Can anyone share their universities stance on the utilization of Skype
> on the university network?  
>
> Are you blocking it, allowing it, or ambivalent towards the application?

Ambivalent. We try very hard to be free and open by default, and only
look at monitoring, restricting, or blocking a particular application
when it causes problems or presents a threat.

From anecdotal information, there are a pretty large number of Skype
users on campus, mostly students. The application doesn't use a very
large amount of bandwidth and so far hasn't been linked to any other
kinds of problems.

What specific concerns do you have about Skype?

-- 
Elliot Kendall <ekendall () brandeis edu>
Network Security Architect
Brandeis University

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