[Discuss] Security

[Richard Pieri]

On Nov 2, 2011, at 8:41 PM, Gregory Boyce wrote:
> 
> "Rogue Vending machine" strikes me as a movie theater threat.  Rogue
> devices can be a very real problem, but you're much more likely to be
> hit by a users virus infected home laptop or potentially a malicious
> device other than a vending machine.

Case in point: a few gigs back we got hit by Slammer on the inside of our firewalled network.  It wasn't ourselves.  It was a visiting vendor or some such who brought it in on his own laptop and it spread when he plugged it into our network.

Another case in point:
http://tech.mit.edu/V131/N30/swartz.html

--Rich P.