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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Foxy Brown on March 13, 2006, 06:44:56 PM

Title: Govt to ban private PCs for work
Post by: Foxy Brown on March 13, 2006, 06:44:56 PM

In response to the series of incidents in which classified information has been inadvertently uploaded to the Internet from personal computers running Winny file-sharing software, the government is to prohibit officials from using their own computers for work. (http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20060312TDY01001.htm)

Title: Govt to ban private PCs for work
Post by: ctz on March 13, 2006, 08:31:11 PM

I see nothing weird in this. Why to spend a huge amount of money to protect ministry's computers when workers take their work to their home pc's which security is poor.

Title: Govt to ban private PCs for work
Post by: Asmodai on March 13, 2006, 10:32:42 PM

This totally makes sense. I'm just somewhat surprised they didn't have a similar policy in effect already.

Title: Govt to ban private PCs for work
Post by: stoneden on March 14, 2006, 11:38:26 PM

Eventually at the place of my employment, users will no longer have admin rights on their work pcs.