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Re: [Cs-club] Why IRC is blocked on campus
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> Ok, so it's not completely a matter of Windows being insecure (because we all
> have insecurities in life :) ), but more a matter of educating users about
> protecting themselves? Is it possible to educate people on this sort of
> thing? It seems to me that that would the best way to handle security
> problems.
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That brings up a good point, Rene, why weren't all university students informed of this at the start of the school year? Instead, students come in and wonder why they can't connect to IRC. Meanwhile, there is still this netbios hole that any hacker inside could exploit. I don't live in the dorms, so I don't see all the stuff you guys get, but does MIO send out anything that says, "Hey, put a firewall on your computer!"? If not, I think they should.
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> Slashdot just recently had some articles about university and college internet
> connections, including one where a college completely banned Windows NT/2000
> due to insecurities (why they didn't ban Windows 98/95 either beats me.)
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Yeah, considering that NT/2000 is designed to be a networked system, and thus is at least as secure as 95/98 which are home OSs. Could you imagine UWO banning all windows OSs? Some of the people at this school have problems working in windows, could you imaging them trying to work in command-line? LOL! Boot camp for Linux: For the first month, you get no GUI, only command-line. If you need to multitask, you do CTRL-ALT-F2, etc. :)
-Brian
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