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On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 09:33:18PM -0400, dan at geer.org wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Not trying to open a rathole, but are any of ya'll dealing
> with "consumerization"?  ("Bring-your-PC-to-work," etc.)


Everyone wants to connect their iPad or phone... so we got a
cheap cable modem from Comcast, wired up a WiFi router, and 
let them play. 

No more privileges than a Starbucks. Highly recommended.


-dsr-




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