Mary wrote:
> Use of things like telnet, or anything that isn't the web, is
> regarded as generally suspicious by people who staff things
> like library terminals.
And for good reason, I think. I'm amazed they even have floppy
drives on the machines. People could bring in infected disks. If
a telnet app is allowed, then other executables have to be allowed
too. There are servers small enough to run from a floppy, you'd
be amazed at what can fit. I wouldn't be surprised at all if
something along the lines of BackOrifice(sp?) could be run like
that.
<theorizing>
If I were running a public internet access place, users would not
have install permissions and there wouldn't be floppy drives.
People could download all you want, but all downloads would be
masked to no-execute and saved to a separate place. Then when
you're done, you can bring your floppy over to a service counter
and the staff would copy it for you.
</theorizing>
Sienca Teng
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