Well, I'm a skilled geek, and so is my friend who plans to open the cafe
with me. We obviously can't staff it all the time between the two of us,
but I don't think someone needs to be brilliant to detect a hack or to
answer typical questions like why their friend can't view the picture they
sent when they really just sent a shortcut.
As for the security issue, I won't have any billing or personal information
on any of the computers. I'm not big brother, and I plan for the majority
of my transactions to be cash based. All accounting and other sensitive
information (if there is any) will be kept on my laptop, off the network.
Those who wish to pay with a credit card will buy time the same way as they
buy coffee: The attendant will run the card through a machine and then
manually create an account.
I'm not too worried about hacking. Should someone succeed in fully
compromising my system, the worst they could do would be cut off Internet
access and perhaps cause some of the computers to need reimaging. I think
that what I will gain in customer loyalty by not having restrictions is
worth what could be lost by weak security.
Any thoughts on that? I'm certainly quite new to this game, and any
suggestions would be helpful.
-Chris
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also skilled geeks make about $100k/yr these days.
cybercafes are lucky to gross that kind of $$$.
Kireau Kendrick
The Cybercafe Search Engine
Cafe Cybercaptive, San Mateo, CA
http://cybercaptive.com
On Sun, 24 Dec 2000, Adam Tuliper wrote:
> This actually could be a dangerous way to implement a system... don't rely
> on the
> skilled staff to stop a hack. Given a regular user account on an NT
domain..
> there can be many things that can be done to hack a system... being
> especially problematic if there are resources (customer info.. billing
> info... etc) on that same network.
>
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> From: Chris Kotrla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Saturday, December 23, 2000 11:42 PM
> Subject: [cc] Timer without software
>
>
> >Hello all.
> >
> >I'm new to this list. I'm planning on moving to Europe in a couple of
> >months, and after becoming acclimated, I think that because of my
computer
> >knowledge and love of coffee, a cyber cafe would be the best business for
> me
> >to enter into.
> >
> >Because I'm starting with a limited amount of capital, I'm looking to
> >minimize cost. I also don't want to place any restrictions on the way
the
> >computers are used. I plan on having a ghost image of all the systems on
a
> >networked server, so short of opening the machine and breaking stuff, I
> >don't see how my customers could do much damage.
> >
> >I imagine a scenereo in which there are ten or so computers all running
> >windows 98 and my server running either NT 4 or 2000. The customer
> >purchases a certain amount of time, and they are given an account on the
> >domain. Through registry policies, the win98 system will not allow
anyone
> >to login to the computer without a domain account. I realize that this
> >isn't perfect security, but I expect my cafe to be staffed with geeks
most
> >of the time, so abuse would be difficult.
> >
> >Does anyone know how to do a forced logout when the allotted time units
run
> >out? That's the only restiction I'm looking to implement. Any other
> >comments?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Chris Kotrla
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> >
> >
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