On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Todd Walton wrote: > I have an interesting challenge. Where I work there are strict > government regulations (called HIPAA) protecting the privacy of our > customers. By company policy, which is designed to conform to those > regulations, there must be no customer data on the computer screen if > there's no one sitting at the computer. To comply, windows can be > minimized, the screen can be turned off, etc. I'd like to find a way > to make this automatic, or at least partially so. > > It'd be cool if there were a spring sensor in the chair, and if it's > not depressed, all windows are minimized. But that's a little over > the top, perhaps. A very short blank-to-screensaver time maybe? > Anybody have any suggestions? Is there Windows software that would > handle this kind of thing? > > -todd
You might want to check out something like the SunRay thin client from Sun Microsystems: <http://www.sun.com/sunray/sunray170/> These can do Windows via citrix or WTS, X, etc. Pretty cool. We're putting out a lot of them here at work for engineers, etc. Get the optional smartcards: when the smartcard comes out the display blanks and locks. Combine with your security policy (more badge readers on internal doors) and 'encourage' people to keep their employee id/physical access badge on the same ring as their sunray smart card. As an aside, at Sun they have combined all these into one card, so you can't pass through a reader-equipped door without the same token you use to login to your desktop. You should be able to get to a point where acccess to the building and access to the network are combined into one physical object: you can't leave the building without the keyring holding your network login token. -Dkee -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
