Re: Irresponsible user stories!
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:39:40 -0400
"Michael Pobega" <pobega@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 04:26:02PM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote:
> > On 4/23/07, Michael Pobega <pobega@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 03:25:20PM -0500, Gnu_Raiz wrote:
> > >>
> > >> [ Snip Story ]
> > >>
> > >
> > >That's pretty awesome, one of the best stories I've heard in a long
> > >while. Did you end up figuring out who this person is, or not? I would
> > >have had a look through his browser history and cookies to check out
> > >where he visits, and gotten him in trouble; Honestly, I don't mind if
> > >people look at porn and stuff, but doing it on a public computer and
> > >denying other people access is definitely out of the question.
> >
> > Bah. The people who should be in trouble here are the folks who don't
> > know how to set up a lab properly in a college (read: hostile)
> > computing environment.
> >
> > Those machines shouldn't be capable of booting from outside media,
> > should re-image themselves regularly (possibly at each boot) and
> > should be severely locked-down to only do the things approved in that
> > lab.
> >
> > I wouldn't even call it an "interesting" story. Crud like that has
> > been happening in college computer labs for decades.
> >
> > With appropriate changes, the lab admins would have known the second
> > someone took a machine offline, and should have immediately approached
> > and stopped the student from loading Linux on the box, if that wasn't
> > the box's intended purpose.
> >
> > It's just another bad college lab admin story, is all it is.
> >
> > Welcome to college... if they don't respect their own network enough
> > to protect it from people reloading machines, it probably shows what
> > kind of engineering and work they do protecting both your
> > network-saved data and your personal information in the main systems
> > in the University too -- if it's the same admins. In many schools it
> > is not.
> >
> > Buy your own machine, and keep it heavily firewalled with all outside
> > services shut off, if you ever even THINK about plugging it into that
> > network.
> >
> > Nate
> >
> >
>
> Are you even able to do that with Windows? I believe the original story
> said all of the computers were powered by Windows, so I wouldn't doubt
> if the college didn't have any "big" tech guys. But you're right, it was
> very much related to the laziness of the sysadmins, but you have to
> admit it's still a humorous story.
I don't think that protecting Windows machines with firewalls and
shutting down services is particularly difficult.
Celejar
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