On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:39:40 -0400 "Michael Pobega" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 04:26:02PM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: > > On 4/23/07, Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
