your comment "(please do NOT top-post or retransmit a whole message on any
public
list, thanks)" i just hit reply.
maybe i am dumb but half of what you said i do not understand, do you not
like what i said or did you?
also what do you mean by "official?" from who? and what do you mean by
"when top boss isn't looking" who are you talking about?
On 10/14/06, M. Fioretti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
(please do NOT top-post or retransmit a whole message on any public
list, thanks)
On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 16:00:23 PM -0500, Daniel Currier
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> i am fairly close to the guy who is head of the tech area in my
> department at the university ... i have told him i use it on a thumb
> drive with OO on it and he absolutely does not care.
Ask him to put it in writing then :-)
> also portable apps do not get installed on the computer. they are
> just on your thumb drive.
"just on your thumb drive" my foot. Security and legality wise it
doesn't make the smallest difference, now does it?
As long as you can attach that drive you could still spread viruses
inside files, run spambots or DDOS attacks or use the PC in some not
authorized way for a school PC (eg playing games or duplicating
copy-protected DVDs thanks to cracked sw on the thumb drive).
Don't get me wrong: I do believe your supervisor is fine with _your_
thumb drives, I really don't care what you do on your University
computers and I also know that in almost every places there are a lot
of such breaks of security.
However, in my first answer I explicitly asked about [official]
policies, not what I or you can get away with, when the top boss isn't
looking, because we are pals with the sysadmin.
Ciao,
Marco
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