Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 28, 2003 10:36 PM
"Imagine having the workstations at your office loaded up with RAM, not needing a hard drive, and having everyone able to carry their systems around on a CD-ROM."
Imagine the huge security risks - users burn a virus-loading bootable CD-ROM at home that can infect the network, bring it in and boot it on their conveniently CD ROM-bootable work PC.
Normal users should only be allowed to boot their PCs from the hard disk (or network if they don't have an accessible hard disk)...
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Imagine the security risks...
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 28, 2003 10:36 PMImagine the huge security risks - users burn a virus-loading bootable CD-ROM at home that can infect the network, bring it in and boot it on their conveniently CD ROM-bootable work PC.
Normal users should only be allowed to boot their
PCs from the hard disk (or network if they don't have an accessible hard disk)...
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