Paul D. Robertson wrote:
>
> On 29 Oct 1996, Ryan Russell/SYBASE wrote:
>
> > Time for office pranks! I'll just go over to Joe's PC
> > and hit www.playboy.com when he's not there...
>
> This is an issue with logging accesses. Sooner or later, someone *will*
> try another person's machine (trust me on this one). Alerting the
> end-user like this is a good thing, for sure. If Joe doesn't lock up his
> PC when he's not there, he's going to be in violation of my security
> policy, and I'll want to talk with him as well as the person who did the
Are you talking physically locking it? If not, in many offices anyone
can log onto the (Novell) network from any PC and point the browswer
where they shouldn't. So MAC address locking doesn't look very good from
many angles.
> original deed. Anyway, disconnecting Joe's PC at the wiring closet is
> much more effective as a prank, especially if Joe can't get in to fix it ;)
>
> ((I'll resist (pun intended) the temptation to talk about clear
> fingernail polish on network connectors))
>
> Paul
> (Who hopes 'Joe' isn't reading this)
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> Paul D. Robertson "My statements in this message are personal opinions
> proberts @
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net which may have no basis whatsoever in fact."
> PSB#9280
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