-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday, 2013-04-30 at 12:22 -0400, Anton Aylward wrote:
Dave Howorth said the following on 04/30/2013 11:44 AM:
enabled. As my laptop is plugged in here it has its firewall disabled. That's because the LAN is behind a nice big commercial firewall box :-)
I would not dare to connect my machine without firewall on a corporate or school environment. Most successful attacks come from insiders.
And yes, right, there is the old issue about "academic freedom", which in some learning establishments lets the staff tell the IT people that security measures are an infringement of their rights and must all be disabled...
And so, you can not imagine the amount of virii the kids get back home on their usb sticks :-) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 12.1 x86_64 "Asparagus" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlGAIgwACgkQtTMYHG2NR9Uh5ACgi8RgcGz+6NEGbz74I8GEzN6z ziUAoIZNYjCc/HvfJd5B4B9MU6dTs+Gv =LAFA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org