[Gllug] Linux on Desktop

[Christopher Hunter]

On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 20:42 +0000, Jason Johns wrote:
> I reckon it's fair to say that organisations operate a variety of
> policies and some of these polices contain grey areas. 
> 
> When I decided to dualboot my work laptop, the company we use for our
> techie stuff reported me. They claimed that it was a security risk :-)
> The complaint didn't get far though! 

A few years ago, I had much the same with a company "IT specialist
manager" who claimed that my use of a Linux laptop was a "security
risk".  

I challenged him to access my laptop whilst it was connected to the
network.  I then showed him how trivially easy it was to gain access to
anything on the Windows machines on the network (even when using
Windows!).  

Suffice to say, he was unable to get any access to the Linux laptop, and
quickly became a Linux convert (he'd used Unix at university) - the
servers were migrated a few months later, and the desktop migration is
currently underway.

Chris


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