Awww. Now come on peeps. You guys are all far more visionary than that. I know for a fact that you can be issue a desktop (or laptop), locked down to use ONLY stuff that that company has installed has installed, not allow you to attach anything to it that they don't approve, and secure it. AND make sure you can only access the internet and any files thru THEIR locked down VPN.
Hubby works for a big 5 insurance company and that's how he works. You can't even attach a thumb-drive to a usb port, or a mouse unless the company IT dept sets it up. Not even a printer. Nothing. Needless to say the internet is also locked down. He's lucky he can plug in a power supply. So this scenario: "all with varied levels of home networking equipment (wireless, DSL, ethernet over power, etc). Add to that the fact that half of them let their kids play games on their computers at night." Not even a factor. Updates, patches, upgrades? All done ONLY thru the company's VPN of course. I'm serious. We had to have a special router just to connect the thing. So if an insurance company has the knowledge, power and resources, ... surely the government can? On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Cameron Childress <camer...@gmail.com>wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 3:32 AM, Chris Stoner <csto...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Well technologically it's feasible to have a secure connection between > > my home and Iraq, that much certainly is true. The part that I think > > you are not considering is that the government wouldn't have control > > over our workstations. > > Yes, physical security is just as important as electronic security. > Imagine 50,000 "work at home" military resources scattered across the > US, all with varied levels of home networking equipment (wireless, > DSL, ethernet over power, etc). Add to that the fact that half of > them let their kids play games on their computers at night. > > Yikes. > > -Cameron > > .. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:326971 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
