[Server-devel] physical security issue

[Walter Bender]

Clarification: the XO is not the laptop I am proposing for the server.
Wad can speak to this.

-walter

On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 11:24 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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