It seems that this discussion is about the impression of security vs actual security. On one side if something gives the impression of security, but does little or nothing to make it more secure, then it's better not to do it. On the other hand, every little bit helps as long as the users don't interpret that as making them perfectly secure. (You could almost say you might as well never do anything since nothing is really perfectly secure.)
My analogy would be this. If you have a convertible car, with the top down, and no security alarm, (essentially the equivalent of OpenSim now), would it be better to leave your laptop sitting on the passenger seat, under the passenger seat, or in a trunk that has no lock on it? (My 1963 Austin Healey Sprite was such a car.) One could argue that you might as well leave it on the passenger seat with a sign on it saying "Take me", because it's no safer there than any of the other options. But if it was my laptop, I'd hide it under the seat or in the trunk. Does this give me a false sense of security? Perhaps. If it was an older laptop and I had backups, I'd be willing to risk it under the seat, but not on top of it. So, my suggestion would be, keep backups, inform your users that things really aren't all that secure yet, and use an older laptop hidden under the seat. :-) Peace, Sean -- Sean Hennessee Central Computing Support Office of Information Technology UC Irvine ... . .- -. / .... . -. -. . ... ... . . _______________________________________________ Opensim-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-users
