[plug] Computer insecurity

[Christian]

On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 02:06:33PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
 
> I believe that the original message that I posted about this, did mention that
> I had sent it to various people of significance at Murdoch (spelling okay, now,
> Christian? ;) ).

It did but you gave no indication of who you meant so leaving people to
guess as to who you thought was "significant".

> I also got a completely misleading response from someone at the IT Helpdesk,
> who completely misrepresented the situation, so as to lull me (and other
> students) into a false sense of security.
> Any security risk is massively aggravated, by technical staff who misrepresent
> the risk as not being present.

What was their answer?  (Possibly more appropriate off list?)

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