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Dennis Nolte

10:18

greetings, i am uncertain if my question would belong to unix.se or rather security.se.
Question would be basically:
protect open wifi access point OS from malicious user
the major point on what else other than iptables to implement to get a reasonable high level of "protection".

terdon

10:31

@DennisNolte Well, IP tables configuration is on topic here. Assuming you're using some sort of *nix, of course. Setting up your router to block access would belong on Super User instead.

Dennis Nolte

@terdon thank you for your reply. i am gonna prepare the question and ask it, worst will be another close :)

terdon

10:45

@DennisNolte Heh, go for it. :)

Jenny D

That question is already on security.se - security.stackexchange.com/q/40304/13705

so I'm going to say that it's on-topic there :-)

Kusalananda

This thread bubbled up on Meta, so I added my bit to it: unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2668/…

@terdon, you've changed your profile picture? Is that you?

Jenny D

@Kusalananda nice to know more about you :-)

terdon

11:04

@Kusalananda No. Last time I changed it was years ago now, I think. Why?

And yes, it's me.

Oh, by the way, @Kusalananda, did you ever work with Benoit Ballester at Ensembl?

Kusalananda

@terdon Oh, then I was mistaken. Sorry.

@terdon :thumbsup:

@terdon I did indeed! Nice chap!

terdon

@Kusalananda Or it might be a bug. If you see a blurry guitar, then it's the same.

@Kusalananda Ha! Yes he is. I was doing my post doc in the place he landed when he left.

Yay! We're real people after all!

Fawad

Hi chat,after long time

terdon

Kusalananda

@terdon I think Benoit is back in France now.

terdon

11:12

@Kusalananda Yes, in Marseille: tagc.univ-mrs.fr/tagc/index.php/people

That's where I was doing my post doc.

Kusalananda

11:58

@terdon I think I'll ping off an email to him, just to say I'm still alive. Thanks for reminding me about him! :-)

terdon

Heh, give him my best (he knows me as Charles, the Greek guy :)

Kusalananda

:-)

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Dennis Nolte

14:12

@terdon as written by jenny and through further checking the topical parts i asked the security meta and will go from their, thanks for your support so far.

terdon

@DennisNolte Well, I hope you get your answer, wherever you ask.

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Braiam

16:14

@terdon about code that you write at work, what is the license of it? Can you claim a specific license? Or the company owns it? (I ask because I'm probably going to work in some health related institution, and through the talks, nobody has touched the topic)

Kusalananda

@Braiam I can't answer for @terdon, but all code I write professionally is required to be licensed under an open source license. All the code I write is Public Record (I'm funded by government) and as such it's required to be open source.

terdon

@Braiam In my case, it's 100% closed source, copyrighted, blah blah, horrid.

In academia, however, it is most often GNU/MIT or other open source licenses.

Stephen Kitt

@Braiam mine is all open source too

Braiam

Is supposedly an public institution with academic focus... through in my country, people tend to not think about it

Kusalananda

@terdon :sadface:

terdon

16:20

Yeah.

@Braiam In that case, GNU is quite likely. But depending on who you're working with (computer people or biologists) they might simply have no idea at all.

Kusalananda

@Braiam They should be able to answer if you ask about it. Ask whether there is any requirement on licensing from the funding agencies. If not, pick one that you like. choosealicense.com

... if it's up to you at all.

As to who owns the code, that's a different thing. Usually it's the employer.

I don't, for example, say that I own what I produce. It's a team effort.

Braiam

"Third level" health, whatever that is, decentralized government institution

Kusalananda

May I ask what country?

(no need to answer)

Braiam

Mine :P

Kusalananda

:-)

Braiam

16:27

Dominican Republic, the one with the city which according to Jimmy Hoffa driving experience is "like driving in an arcade game. That was pure insanity, one of the most exhilirating, scary, hilarious things I'd ever done in a car. "

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