[I seem to have forgotten to send this.] | From: Peter King via talk <talk@gtalug.org> | Can't say that I disagree with any of this. I protested when the UofT decided | to amalgamate all its services on Microsoft Server (to no avail), and even | more so when they made it all but impossible not to use Outlook (after using | mutt happily for years and years) - on the grounds that Outlook somehow had | "more modern" security, which turned out to be doublespeak for "proprietary | closed-source protocols" for accessing the mailserver that they now | controlled. Rewriting links and pushing their brand is the completely | predicable result. Hear hear! I have (rarely used) courtesy accounts at U of T. I just tested. Mail to me at cs.toronto.edu isn't touched by Microsoft. Postfix and Exim only. | Just recently I was told that the University would not allow me to ssh in to | my office computer "because ssh had to be protected from the internet" (!), Yuck. I can still ssh into the one U of T CS system I tried. I don't know the current nodes that general CS users are supposed to use (it's been that long). | and instead I was supposed to use some binary blob to create a VPN into the | UofT network Open Standards! They should use IPSec and not require binary blobs of unknown safety. SSH is good as long as passwords are not used.