[Server-devel] physical security issue

[Walter Bender]

One idealet (not worthy of being called an idea): What if the server
were a laptop that the teacher could take with him/her? Pros: The
school need not be secure. Cons: Price, and of course, laptops can be
stolen. But it does put the server in the hands of a presumably
trusted individual in the community.

-walter

On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 11:20 PM, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 8:00 PM, John Watlington <wad at laptop.org> wrote:
>>
>> You keep pushing for centrally hosted school servers.
>> Are you sure you don't work for the phone company ?
>>
>
> Last time I checked, San Francisco State University wasn't in the
> telco business.
>
>> Again, unless you have a 100 Mbit connection from the
>> school to the upstream ISP, you will need something with
>> a disk and a significant amount of memory present in the
>> school.
>>
>
> OK.
>
>> I don't disagree about the need for physical security of
>> the machine, just the proposed solution.
>>
>
> OK. Any other solutions? I'm all ears.
>
> Sameer
>
>> wad
>>
>> On Oct 7, 2008, at 10:47 PM, Sameer Verma wrote:
>>
>>> As if discussions on this list aren't lively enough, here's another
>>> issue to look at.
>>>
>>> While I was in Jamaica, I met with several people who work with their
>>> school districts, and many pointed out that if a server was to stay
>>> physically resident at the school, it will need a lot of physical
>>> security. The most common problem is theft. The other problem will be
>>> physical damage (just because somebody can). It is not uncommon in
>>> some of these
>>>
>>> If the school server is hosted at an ISP upstream, we need something
>>> small (maybe an XO?) at the school that can VLAN or VPN over to the
>>> school server at the ISP/Data Center.
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>> Sameer
>>> --
>>> Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
>>> Associate Professor of Information Systems
>>> San Francisco State University
>>> San Francisco CA 94132 USA
>>> http://verma.sfsu.edu/
>>> http://opensource.sfsu.edu/
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Walter Bender
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