[Edu-sig] UPDATE: High School Network Security

Jordan Johnson jorjohns at cs.indiana.edu
Tue May 17 02:52:16 CEST 2005


On Monday, May 16, 2005, at 11:00  AM, Frank Noschese wrote:
> 4) Security of the "system." Since in most cases, anyone can obtain a 
> copy of
> the source code of the software (OPEN SOURCE), we are running the risk 
> of a
> user being able to modify the software on the network and manipulated 
> it in
> such a manor to produce undesired effects.
         ^^^^^

Aha, so that's what this is really about--a threat to the manor!

jmj

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