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- From: vulture@imperial.ac.uk (Thomas Sippel - Dau)
- Subject: Re: Security vs usefulness (was Re: reasons
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- - Olaf, do you really believe that an academic site should put computers
- - that students can access on the same network as the ones containing
- - grades, financial data, and medical records without putting in major
- - firewalls between the networks?
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- And should students enter the building through the same entrance,
- use the same loos or the same telephone system ?
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- The days when computer use in universities could be compartmentalised
- like that are long gone. Financial data of the university and university
- staff and student medical records may be kept on a different computer,
- but (often) a lot more medical records - and sometimes more interesting
- ones, depending on your interests, are kept in researchers' files.
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- A lot more needs to be thought about security, and not even the Orange
- book helps very much, because it still thinks in terms of a system
- with limited connections to the outside.
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- Thomas
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