On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Michael Halcrow wrote:
The only thing keeping the the average CS department lab from imploding is the general honesty and trustworthiness of the students.
Or their general ignorance. I mean, think about it--most of the students don't even know the "touch -d" command exists. You think they're going to be booting from a CD to run ethereal or patch the kernel or replace bash? Ha.
I'm far more worried about your Random Joe who can easily walk off the street, go into the Talmage building, plop himself down at a computer and boot from a CD, or plug his laptop into the network and sniff traffic, or stick a hardware keylogger on one of the boxes, or any number of the things you mentioned. You could do this just about anywhere, from universities to libraries to internet cafes. The only reason I think we don't hear about it more often is not because there are so many honest people out there, but because the dishonest ones know how not to get caught.
~ Ross "Tin Foil Hat Firmly In Place" Werner
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