[Micronet] Minimum security standards

First off, my question about any pure Mac support folks left on Campus was
meant as an attempt at humor, though it can be hard to detect in email
format. Please don't read any further into the comment, I support Mac as
well as Win boxes in Chemistry and have no issue doing so.

As for the argument floating around about exclude whole blocks of Operating
Systems as they don't have vulnerabilities, would you consider letting Win
3.11 and Dos 6.2 to be acceptable OS onto the network? Just because they
aren't vulnerably, doesn't mean they can't cause other problems. A perfect
example of this would be Mac OS 8 & 9 can easily transmit PC email viruses,
due to the manner in which Mac OS Anti-Virus engines work (maybe this has
changed in the most recent builds...?). Great these type of OS are not
vulnerably, but on the other hand you can't get new Anti-Virus engines (or
won't be able to in the next 6 - 9 months) and there are not software
Firewalls for these older OS. I guess it comes down to Letter of the policy
vs the Spirit of the policy...

This policy is geared towards protecting the Campus, and reducing the
number of hosts that will get wiped out when the next major hack/virus
comes out.
...and everyone should know by now its a matter of when, not if.

jpk

ps: David and I are looking at an Oct meeting to have this MSS discussion,
we will sent another email closer to the meeting date.

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Johnathon P. Kogelman
Chemistry, Information Systems
(510) 642.4838
jpk@cchem.berkeley.edu

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Received on Thu Jun 24 17:01:12 2004