As an administrator of a 80 node (both PC and Mac) campus, I just instituted this security rule with all of my users mainly because of the Sony rootkit exploit. Albeit, the Corporate policy is that Company computer resources should only be used for business purposes, and playing music CDs on your computer isn't a business purpose.
The less problems I can proactively prevent BEFORE I have a problem is less work that I have to do to fix the problem AFTER something sneaks up.
I was there yesterday... very disappointing. It was about half the size of last year's expo, and no really 'cool' stuff there. Last year, Slashdot had a booth, ThinkGeek was there selling there wares, and UserFriendly had a really cool 'find the puzzle pieces' game. Sure, I went to find out all the lastest news, gadgets, and information, but hell, I want to have some fun too! About the only thing that I enjoyed spending some time talking about was the PS2 to Linux box conversion for $199. Oh, the IBM mainframe was pretty neat too, especially being able to hold the processor *drool*.
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As an administrator of a 80 node (both PC and Mac) campus, I just instituted this security rule with all of my users mainly because of the Sony rootkit exploit. Albeit, the Corporate policy is that Company computer resources should only be used for business purposes, and playing music CDs on your computer isn't a business purpose.
The less problems I can proactively prevent BEFORE I have a problem is less work that I have to do to fix the problem AFTER something sneaks up.
TIMMY!
I was there yesterday... very disappointing. It was about half the size of last year's expo, and no really 'cool' stuff there. Last year, Slashdot had a booth, ThinkGeek was there selling there wares, and UserFriendly had a really cool 'find the puzzle pieces' game. Sure, I went to find out all the lastest news, gadgets, and information, but hell, I want to have some fun too! About the only thing that I enjoyed spending some time talking about was the PS2 to Linux box conversion for $199. Oh, the IBM mainframe was pretty neat too, especially being able to hold the processor *drool*.
wolfman
Seems like they should stick to showing more of 'Beach MTV' ... sorry I'd rather watch bikini clad women than a news piece on hackers any day!