On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 11:42:45AM +0000, Phil Driscoll wrote:
Even when you've had the wit to stick a gnu/linux or bsd box between yourself and the outside world, you are surely fighting a losing battle if you have a couple of hundred windows boxes running IE and Outlook on the other side of
IE and Outlook, horrible stuff.
it. To compound the problem, you also have a pile of portables which staff take home and connect to the internet, before plugging them back into the school network to unleash their dubious payloads.
If I was responsible for this in an LEA I would insist that somebody from the school sat, and passed with flying colours, a very scary network security exam, before they'd get me to open any ports :)
Might not be a bad idea to have a few people at LEAs take such an exam :) Since in many cases these are the people encouraging the use of laptops and even supplying them to schools. -- Mark Evans St. Peter's CofE High School Phone: +44 1392 204764 X109 Fax: +44 1392 204763