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Kristen kris_s at atmyhome.org
Fri Dec 3 20:42:06 UTC 2010


On Thursday December 2 2010 11:02:55 Tony Molloy wrote:

> > It isn't that they are up to something, but they, like kids I've known
> > (and know) think they know what they're doing, and are carrying all sorts
> > of mean and nasty stuff on their thumb drives, on their own machines that
> > they're d/l to the linux boxen, etc.
> > 
> >             mark
> > 
> > --
> 
> Well in a University environment you have to put up with that. You can't
> very well ban USB keys or the use of private laptops, and it wouldn't work
> anyway.
> 
> You just have to keep a close eye on any server students have access to and
> isolate those as much as possible.
> 
> We've had a couple of major outbreakes over the years but they've always
> been to Windows boxes.
> 
> Tony

Well said Tony. I am educating my college student IT department on Linux with 
the future hopes of bringing Linux instruction to the classroom. There is a 
serious need to balance out the excessive Microsoft education. I have been 
given a server and run CentOS with SELinux enforcing. The server is being used 
for the Cisco classes which require tftp. I must have SELinux or I might lose 
the server to all the Microsoft cheerleaders who are eager to be the first to 
kill a Linux server. And they do try (and fail). Fortunately these Microsoft 
students do not understand what they think they know.

This is a good thread

Kristen

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