On Thu, 22 Jun 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Blah blah blah....
>
> We keep the screws down on the knowledgable folks with their fancy
> UNIX workstations and then blithely smile as the nice fellow from the
> department of what-color-should-the-product-logo-be (or whatever)
> hooks up to the network with a shiny new Windows98 laptop that gives
> him perpetual root access to spray VBugs to all his compadres...
> Then he loads it up with all of the strategic info about where the company
> is headed and then leaves it running with the corporate financials on
> the screen in a spreadsheet while he heads to the back of the plane to
> schmooze the stewardess for 45 minutes. That's if it hasn't been
> snarfed at the security check or accidentally left (passwordless) in a
> taxi.
>
> Meanwhile engineering is in a lock-down for fear than some dude may
> screw up his workstation and interrupt his sysadmin with a request
> for installation media and a few questions about reloading his box.
>
Yep, more reason not to have Windows anything on the network:-).
Agree that security is all-encompassing, all machines (it's only as
strong as the weakest link).
> OY! Somebody pass me the bucket ;-) ;-).
>
>
> ccb
>
> --
> Charles C. Bennett, Jr. VA Linux Systems
> Systems Engineer, 25 Burlington Mall Rd., Suite 300
> US Northeast Region Burlington, MA 01803-4145
> +1 617 543-6513 +1 888-LINUX-4U
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> vi/(emacs) NT/(Linux) qmail/(sendmail) (perl)/python (pepsi)/coke
(ps: you forgot VMS exim lisp)
jeff
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