[Novalug] Student Computer

Beartooth beartooth@Beartooth.Info
Sat Apr 18 10:19:27 EDT 2009


On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Dan Arico wrote:

>> I might disagree with this.  Might it be that she used the 
>> machine correctly, even relying on the campus provided 
>> security services (I have no idea if any are) to "protect" the 
>> network, but the protection was lax, and allowed her machine 
>> to be compromised?  I have seen this myself on a few large 
>> networks; it is reported upon various media outlets.  The 
>> machines are tools (and entertainment) for the masses (even 
>> for small children these days), so why belittle someone who is 
>> not an IT expert?  Perhaps the network admins should be 
>> belittled.
>>
>> D.
>
> This happened at Notre Dame. I don't know what the source of 
> the virus/worm was, but it made it through the network.

 	In case any here haven't been following it there, there 
has been significant discussion of the conficker worm on 
news.grc.security and news.grc.securitynow.

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