[Web4lib] Disable USB drives on public computers

robin rboulton at linc.lib.il.us
Fri Apr 28 15:34:02 EDT 2006


I submit that the answer is DeepFreeze (www.faronics.com) which, when the PC
is rebooted, will restore it to whatever condition it was in when frozen -
NO MATTER WHAT the user did to it in the meantime.

-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Drew, Bill
Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 2:26 PM
To: Thomas Dowling; web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: RE: [Web4lib] Disable USB drives on public computers

Or I might want to reboot your computer from my USB drive with my own
operating system so I could hack into your computer.

Wilfred (Bill) Drew
E-mail: mailto:drewwe at morrisville.edu
AOL Instant Messenger:BillDrew4 
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin)
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org 
> [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Dowling
> Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 3:23 PM
> To: web4lib at webjunction.org
> Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Disable USB drives on public computers
> 
> On 4/28/2006 3:11 PM, travelinlibrarian.8248287 at bloglines.com wrote:
> 
> > O.k. I'll bite. What do you have on a public computer that 
> you don't want
> > someone copying to a USB drive. Further, as a patron, I 
> want to run my portable
> > Firefox and would be suitably upset if you didn't let me...
> 
> Hear, hear!
> Or maybe I just want to save my search results without paying 
> a dollar a
> page for color printing...
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