Re: Small Kiosk Computers - Recommendations?

[Jeff Howlett <howlettj () MEREDITH EDU>]

Where I used to work, we used NComputing terminals in the Kiosk's with
great success.  http://www.nvcc.edu/pip/Sept5-08.pdf  Page 20 of the pdf.
Email me offline if you are interested in further information, such as
contacts within Ncomputing or the place to buy for best discounts.

Jeff


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Meredith College
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[mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Matthew Gracie
Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 8:07 AM
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Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Small Kiosk Computers - Recommendations?

Michael J. Wheeler wrote:
> We are in the process of implementing CashNet to outsource our campus
> credit card processing. Part of this project involves buying a 2-3 small

> kiosk devices to run a web browser for people to pay their bills online,
so
> that we won't be physically handling their cards.
>
> We're currently looking at the JackPC from chippc.com because it looks
to
> be a very small, neat, and easily secured device. Their website (I know,

> never trust a salesman) says that the devices are 100% secured from
viruses
> and worms, and they require no security patches.
>
> Does anyone have experience with devices such as these? We're looking
for
> something that can easily be physically secured, as well as a secure OS.

> Since the device will only be running a web browser, we'd like something

> that is as simple as possible. These JackPC devices say they have a bare
OS
> with only a web browser if you wish.
>
> I'm sure there's got to be someone else out there who has gone through
> something similar to this. Any thoughts/recommendations would be greatly

> appreciated.

When we needed something like this in our Student Accounts office, I
just set up an old all-in-one PC (a Gateway Profile, I believe) with a
copy of Ubuntu and set it to launch Firefox in full-screen. If you've
got old hardware lying around that would be usable, this might work for
you.

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Matt Gracie                         (716) 888-8378
Information Security Administrator  graciem () canisius edu
Canisius College ITS                Buffalo, NY
http://www2.canisius.edu/~graciem/graciem_public_key.gpg