Re: The Amero case and responsibility for security.

On Apr 3, 9:10 am, responder <n...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Doug Laidlaw wrote:
responder wrote:

Doug Laidlaw wrote:

Perhaps a bit OT. Whether Julie Amero's conviction should be upheld or
not, I can't say. But the case does point out that every owner of a
computer has at least a moral responsibility to take steps to avoid
"accidents" like hers.

It would have been constructive to post a link to the summary of
whatever "accident" this may have been. I have no idea what this is
about. Of course, we could all individually google to try to understand
what you are talking about. Or you could have posted a better message.
... would have been better.

[...]

Is that wise?

Who knows ? (Not me.)

Try harder next time. As it seems from here and now, this is probably
spam. And "Perhaps a bit OT".

It may be spamming. It is more a general issue in relation to security.
Who will supervise these children, and prevent them from seeing directly
what they saw there by accident?

I thought that the story was well known. The link is
http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/471?ref=rss

Doug.

Hello Doug, and thanks for the link. I was not aware of this story. It
is a valid concern for many, if not me.

At risk of sounding superficial, exclusionary or otherwise unfriendly,
shut them off. This is all public money providing internet access to
schools. And if there is fault, the fault is in providing the access in
the first case, and not in some secondary supposed control.

Turn them off and save a few billion dollars. This is the internet we
have. I don't like a lot of it, and what I dislike most, I say so. There
is no "line item veto". Take it as it is or leave it.

Some smart admins may improve their local pictures. Or not.

This is our world. This is our network. Speak out if you don't like it.
I do.

Prosecuting anyone for failing to block, that's really PTA stuff. Ask any
teacher about that. If they don't want internet access, then great. Save
us all a bundle of tax money.

Wishes.
I think they can control the access to the internet at schools. for
example by using aproxy server. and i did this for a company before.
this is very simple. they can control the access to some sites based
on some sort of black lists and some words. or if they need some
particular sites for the students they can permit it only and block
the rest of the internet. they may also use application firewalls and
so on. and it's not a big work. this will just take some time.
Wishes.

.

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