, 2004-09-15
Academic institutions who have to add, manage, and secure thousands of new users within a period of just a few days face political and social issues on top of the immense technical ones.
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Academia Headaches
2004-09-16
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grow up
2004-09-17
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another vote for open-sourcing the perl code
2004-09-17
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another vote for open-sourcing the perl code
2004-09-18
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Now, on to the comment:
I think the descriptions of the students/faculty regarding their machines is pretty accurate of all users. They don't know and don't care.
Even the CS professors are a little ignorant of computer security. This is illustrated by me having to explain the "Filtered" result of a port scan to one of my instructors.
In reading the article, I gathered that the installation of antivirus was a requirement... Why not include a SUS server to the network and make the configuration of the machine to point to that SUS server a requirement, too? It would eliminate the need to worry about whether or not the machines are getting patched.
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