On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 8:33 PM, Jonas Smedegaard <d...@jones.dk> wrote:
> Yes, let's consider the persona Fei Fei. > > Please try describe the initial setup for the persona Fei Fei - if any > different than for Jim! For one thing, it is a shared machine. Fei Fei wants several of her friends to use it. Most of them have the standard Chinese setup, a PC with software from three disks at $1 each: XP, Office and Photoshop. They will need Putty, and both they and Fei Fei will need some instructions. They may need Firefox as well; most are unaware that browsers other than IE exist. Some of her friends do not have their own computers. They want to connect from Internet cafes. Those are strictly controlled; the management are legally supposed to record all customers' IDs, though this is not always enforced. Those machines are typically used mostly for Warcraft and other games, and security on them is generally amazingly lax. Not even an anti- virus program, just something that asks for a password during boot to record your time usage, then lets you into XP as admin. Anything you save is wiped on reboot. Fei Fei owns the machine and has admin privileges. She and Ting Ting, who has a nice Macbook, can use the box. No great problem there, we just have to build it and provide them with instructions. What about Lan Lan, who has only Internet cafe access? Is there a subset of box services that she can safely be allowed to use? When she uses a machine with a key logger (fairly common in Internet bars, mostly with the goal of sealing game gold), does she compromise only herself or does that hurt Fei Fei and Ting Ting? _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list Freedombox-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss