Chybí mi dny telnetovýho KOSu, a to jsem je ani nezažil*. #čvut

Tento tút je výsledkem rozjímání nad zaváděním MFA, o němž jsem obdržel informaci. Svět je báječné místo k předstírání, že počítače lze zabezpečit jinak než jejich izolací či ideálně vypnutím.

@ozzelot M v tom MFA je v tomto případě Microsoft, jsem slyšel?

@vbabka Je tomu tak. Úplně nerozumím tomu, zda se to nechá přesvědčit i pomocí nemicrosoftích TOTP aplikací (asi jo), ale brána je rozhodně microsoftí (a to už nějakou dobu.) https://ist.cvut.cz/nase-sluzby/vicefaktorove-overovani-mfa/

@vbabka Za mě: když v MS jede nějaká firma, budiž, ale u vzdělávacích institucí je to pro mě zklamáním (kdy první větší zklamání přišlo v době prvních lockdownů a Teams; a ne, Zoom není ni o chlup lepší.)

@ozzelot @vbabka Yes the Teams has been directive chosen as required technology by #CVUT VIC after the firs period of open experimentation with different technologies for the COVID enforced distant education. We (at #CVUTFEL) have big advantage that our IT team has been able to setup/build #BigBlueButton instance in less than two weeks. Its integration and ability to import and plan schedules, groups, attendees list directly from KOS system evolved into system incomparably superior to all Teams tools and VIC could not argue and stop that system. We like #BigBlueButton presentation mode so much that we use it even for regular in person #comparch lectures and provide recordings to our students. By the way, the free Microsoft’s offer of the Teams to schools at COVID has been Trojan horse to education systems, because it did allow to start meeting only manually at given time without paying for Evolution license. Only after paying license, the planning of meeting in advance and obtaining link to send is available as I know.

By the way, our VIC step into Microsoft slavery and #CTVUT management desire to provide identity even for alumni students would lead to life long payments for each alumni identity to Microsoft for each graduate who did not opt-out from identity systems. Or at least, I have heard that from one VIC employee responsible for users databases and #CVUT yellow pages.

I have found (from the public contracts registers) that #CVUT has paid about 80 mil. kč for Microsoft licenses directly and through traffickers companies from 2017 years. But problem is that part of that amount paid in the last years is 32 mil. kč after VIC decisions for the full outsourcing of identity management to the Microsoft Entra ID cloud. So we can expect even exponential growth of expenses for this kind of racketeering. And according to our highest majesty, National Cyber and Information Security Agency, #NUKIB office, it is OK that Microsoft does not obey European Union rules, see their Cloud computing - exceptions to data storage. So no care about Patriot Act and previous Microsoft behavior, older and more recent withdrawal of service to Chinese universities and at least abrupt data block to one company, etc.

@ppisa @vbabka I've always found overreliance on "the cloud" quite strange (on an intuitive level, for I am admittedly no engineer), and NUKIB's "let's mark Huawei as dangerous spies, but not do the same to Microsoft, Google etc., because despite them also doing spy crap, we're aligned with their countries so it's somehow okay" approach at least worthy of questioning.

@ppisa @vbabka And in my heart of hearts, I find nonfree software to be antithetical to the spirit of education and a healthy society, but that is getting into a much bigger/different picture...

@ppisa
I also liked the first semester of lockdown - and the course I liked best did no videoconferencing at all, just homework for points which then got turned into a grade :D (Or an exam if you didn't get enough of said points.)
@vbabka