The Great Firewall of Yale
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The Great Firewall of Yale
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#2The experience seems like fair preparation for the reality into which their charges will graduate.
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#3I don't think blocking a specific set of IP addresses constitutes deep packet inspection. If they were reading the payload contents for strings matching the CourseTable site, that would qualify.
Still, this is a stupid move by Yale.
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#4I'm sure no Yale student has ever heard of tethering and that blocking the site on the Yale network will effectively prevent very smart students from reaching this website.
You would think that the Yale administrators would know better than this.
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#5What's the purpose of Yale censoring certain websites? I find it hilarious that people spend so much money to go to Yale, and some of that money goes to inspecting what they're browsing.
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#6I don't think blocking a specific set of IP addresses constitutes deep packet inspection. If they were reading the payload contents for strings matching the CourseTable site, that would qualify. Still, this is a stupid move by Yale.
If they were only blocking based on IP address then students wouldn't be able to ping the server. So they're blocking on at least the TCP layer.
... not that that constitutes DPI either.
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#7If it were only deep packet inspection, the solution would be simply to prefix https:// and be done with it. As other posters have remarked, I suspect the article means an IP based block.
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#8Is the course listing software open-source? I'd like to do this for another school...
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#9I thought my school was bad but reading this makes the administration at my school look like angels. When I launched a similar service at UNC Chapel Hill, the IT dept blocked requests from my server to theirs for scraping latest data.
They claimed I was creating excess load, which is silly because if they really did the math, given how many people were using my service I was probably saving them resources.
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#10I don't think blocking a specific set of IP addresses constitutes deep packet inspection. If they were reading the payload contents for strings matching the CourseTable site, that would qualify. Still, this is a stupid move by Yale.
If they were only blocking based on IP address then students wouldn't be able to ping the server. So they're blocking on at least the TCP layer. ... not that that constitutes DPI either.
This looks like the block page you get from a Palo Alto firewall. The feature set includes traffic inspection, among many other things. We've got a couple where I work, they are pretty great firewalls actually.