-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday, 2013-04-30 at 16:36 -0400, Ted Byers wrote:
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 4:16 PM, John Andersen <> wrote:
I would not dare to connect my machine without firewall on a corporate or school environment. Most successful attacks come from insiders.
Neither would I. I have seen the kind of mischief some students can get into. Fortunately I have not had to deal with an insider attack. But that is why there is IT admin staff, who are, in a sense, gatekeepers, ensuring that no service that isn't needed n a given machine is running, that the firewalls are properly maintained, &c. I would never let users, be they academic staff, students, or even my programmers, change any services or the various security related protocols that we have established. That is the role of the IT admin staff, under the direction of the appropriate management personnelle, and it is ther heads on the line if they make a mistake that compromises security.
I would not trust IT personel that much. Who knows, I could be that IT myself! >:-p (yes, I have papers that say that I'm trained as such) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 12.1 x86_64 "Asparagus" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlGANQQACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UVdQCeKlSzmzgD9a8YI2SIUPOsywqn TsoAoIDD74SCAjjxXa/hSp/iztg7a0zj =9Fi1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org