Re: I have been asked to leave the company for having spotted serious security breaches

From: Bill Unruh (unruh_at_string.physics.ubc.ca)
Date: 02/03/05 

Date: 3 Feb 2005 01:10:05 GMT

"Curious George" <curious@spampoop.com> writes:

>Allright guys. . .

>All of you have made your point. This is the Original Poster and I am not a
>troll unless you catch me on a Friday night after a few drinks.

....

>The short of it is that its really sad that these are the sort of people who
>we entrust to oversee the administration of schools and handle our most
>precious resource, our children. I think its not so much the teachers,
>although there are plenty of bad ones I assure you, its the administration
>of these schools that is at issue. The really good teachers, the
>progressive ones who want to really make a difference and truly enage these
>young minds with challenges are being squashed.

It has never been clear what the topology of your situation was.

 Having this in the schools is in some ways more dangerous, since the
kids are going to try things out, and in fact you want them to try things
out-- that is how they learn. However it means that they may well
"innocently" do damage. (innocent in that they do not really know what the
consequences of their actions are.) Thus you really do want them in a
sandbox.
The problem is that in such a situation often the admin network stuff
(teacher's reports, children's files, etc) are not well protected from the
rest of the stuff the kids are supposed to be able to use. The teachers
want to be able to use the wireless to enter their grades, etc. and also
have the kids use it to connect and surf the net.

Do they really want the kids to be able to pull up their own or othr kid's
files and read them, or even alter them? Ie, you need a really strong
firewall between the admin stuff and the "play" stuff. And you want any
access of the admin stuff from the play or from outside to be encrypted.

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