[access-uk] Re: tonight's intouch
- From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 16:53:37 +0100
All very well Sunil talking about people using USB sticks to save files on a
public computer. However, here we are talking about running executables
and/or scripts, a different matter. Andrew and others more knowledgable about
this have commented, and maybe will comment again.
Ray
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Sunil" <bosley20@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 2:38 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: tonight's intouch
| Security implications? I'm interested to know what you're referring to. As
| someone said earlier, people use the usb drives on PCs in internet cafes and
| hotels and other public places all the time - digi cameras and thumb drives
| for instance.
|
| -----Original Message-----
| From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
| yusuf
| Sent: 12 October 2005 14:35
| To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
| Subject: [access-uk] Re: tonight's intouch
|
| Hi Ian, yep your right. I was just surprised that the security implications
| weren't touched upon.
| Yusuf
| ----- Original Message -----
| From: "Ian Macrae" <ian.macrae@xxxxxxxxx>
| To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 9:29 AM
| Subject: [access-uk] Re: tonight's intouch
|
|
| > Hi Yuisuf,
| >
| > As you know I wasn't involved in that item but Sunil did highlight the
| > problem of lack of USB when one of the computers he tried didn't have a
| > port, or at least he couldn't find it.
| >
| > Cheers now.
| >
| > Ian
| >
| > -----Original Message-----
| > From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
| > Of yusuf
| > Sent: 12 October 2005 09:22
| > To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
| > Subject: [access-uk] Re: tonight's intouch
| >
| >
| > Andrew, Thanks for the info. I'm not criticising the Freedom box or
| > comparing it to any other solution for accessing a public computer. I
| > was
| > trying to point out the difficulties as I saw them of taking such a
| > device
| > and plugging it in to a USB port on a public computer. I just felt that
| > the
| > program should have pointed out both the fact that some public computers
| >
| > won't even have a USB port and others that do either won't allow you to
| > plug
| > in your device or as you say the software on the PC won't allow the
| > device
| > to have proper access.
| >
| > Yusuf
| > ----- Original Message -----
| > From: "Andrew Hodgson" <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| > To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| > Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 11:12 PM
| > Subject: [access-uk] Re: tonight's intouch
| >
| >
| >> Hi,
| >>
| >> The Freedom box is actually very respectful of a lot of policy
| >> settings, and unless the system has been locked down to such a degree
| >> that it is unusable by the sighted person that needs to use it, it
| >> will work. A lot of people need to plug in USB devices into machines
| >> in caffes etc because of saving data to a thumb drive. Quite often
| >> when you leave the caffe the system is wiped to how it was at the
| >> beginning, usually using some quick restore mechanism built into
| >> specialist software for the specific purpose.
| >>
| >> The problems are when we need special software like authorization or
| >> video intercept managers to be loaded, as this is just practially not
| >> possible.
| >>
| >> Andrew.
| >> -----Original Message-----
| >> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
| >> Behalf Of yusuf
| >> Sent: 11 October 2005 22:14
| >> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
| >> Subject: [access-uk] tonight's intouch
| >>
| >> Hi all, I was slightly surprised when listening to tonight's intouch
| >> item on the Freedom box that someone didn't mention the likelyhood
| >> that a blind person wouldn't simply be able to go up to a computer in
| >> an internet cafae,
| >> library or university and just plug in this external USB device.
| > In-fact
| >> I'm
| >> even more surprised that someone in one of the three places that Sunil
| >> tried
| >> to use the freedom box didn't ask him what he thought he was up to. I
| >> know
| >> the program is very tite but something as fundamental as this, should
| >> have
| >> been pointed out. A lot of les technologically minded people are going
| >> to
| >> have the idea that they can simply take this device an dplug it
| >> anywhere.
| >> Despite the fact that most publicly available computers won't allow
| > this
| >> and
| >> many won't even have USB ports.
| >>
| >> Yusuf
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