From: Brian Haynes <deus777@earthling.net>
To: cs-club@list.acs.uwosh.edu
Subject: Re: [Cs-club] Why IRC is blocked on campus
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2002 07:18:53 -0600
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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.
---<snip>---
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.
---<snip>---
> 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.)
---<snip>---
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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