[Gllug] Cost of RedHat vs Ubuntu desktop support

[David Damerell]

On Monday, 13 Jul 2009, JLMS wrote:
>On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 4:09 PM, David
>Damerell<damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
>>Keeps most people happy. If you want to tinker you can; but staff time
>>isn't bled away in fixing tinkered-with machines.
>How do they deal with security in such promiscuous environment?

The usual corporate "crunchy on the outside, soft on the inside"
firewall arrangement plus a lot of IDS.

Unless you are going to explicitly restrict DHCP to certain MAC
addresses, the stupidest people will bring in tainted personal laptops
anyway.

More generally, you _cannot_ assume that an internal machine will not
become compromised. They will. Hence you have to deal with that
whether or not you let people fiddle with their own machines.

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