Yesterday, [EMAIL PROTECTED] gleaned this insight:
> 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.
We fight this fight too, but this one's MUCH harder to win... Management
types insist they need Windows. We plan to use Samba to run login scripts
which HELP the problem, but definitely don't solve it.
The solution to Windows security is don't use it.
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