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Should Colleges Monitor Students' PCs?
dancedance asks: "I am a CS student at a small Liberal Arts college. Like most academic institutions, we have to deal with worm-infested computers being brought into the network from the outside. In the past the school's response has been to require all windows computers to install the virus software provided by the school. Although this helped protect the network, it was certainly not a complete solution, especially at the beginning of the school year. This year computing services is taking a more proactive approach to network security: it is requiring all Windows-based computers to install software which will allow the school to automatically update virus software, apply windows patches, install software 'deemed necessary' for network security, and 'report on the status of your computer'. This seems like a 'one step foreword, two steps backward,' approach to network safety as I fear that, under this system, a malicious user would only have to break into one central system to wreak havoc on the entire network. Are my concerns about this system well founded, or is this less of a problem than I make it out to be? Are similar policies getting implemented at other academic institutions?"
Well if it's ok then, gimmie your IP and root pw so I can scan your computer to make sure you dont have anything that will cause problems to everbodys intarweb.
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Then they can sell the video feed in the internet and help to reduce tution fees with the income they make.
Is a win-win situation, ppl around the world can get unscripted reality web bradcast (maybe pr0n) and let a lot of students to complete a college education it doesn't matter if it is to flip burgers at Mc Donald's
Think man! Stop drawing attention to it, and start trying to hack it. Don't be a fool!
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I didn't hear apples mentioned?
We polish 'em up and give 'em to teacher.
KFG
I would think though, that if you're smart enough to change your MAC address, you'd be smart enough to make sure that your computer is safe.
Karma: Can only be portioned out by the Cosmos.
...Or just install Linux, which is like $2,000 cheaper.
> I am a CS student at a small Liberal Arts college
When I read this my mind immediately expected it to be followed by something like:
"I am a CS student at a small Liberal Arts college. I've never been lucky with girls and nothing like this has ever happened to me before. One night I was up late in the laundry room and this beautiful girl walked in..."
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At least you admit to being one of the careless idiots.
one step foreword
He sure isn't a spelling major
of someone who went to a "liberal arts" college, where you learn that there's no such thing as an abstract principle, that we must be pragmatic, and consider every new situation with no bias from past experience. I find it difficult to believe that you are in fact, responsible for anything.
"Overall, I think that this is probably better for the system"
Of course you're more interested in "the system", you're a liberal.
In my new position I can completely understand it. When I was in college, I would have despised the very concept.
Of course you retain no concrete beliefs, you're a liberal.
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
Double shoot ... how many of them even bother writing their term papers? Just download 'em!
This could also solve problems with transmission of STDs.
How much time, on average, would you say you spend looking at traffic between the Debian repositories and your machine? [you do know they got seriously hacked and compromised not many moons ago, do you?] How much time (on average) would you say you spend looking at the package files? Also, how much time (on average) do you spend examining the source code for the binaries you download or build?
Thanks.
People in management can get very bright; you just need to burn them at a higher temperature until they glow a nice, pretty blue.
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