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more on Caution suggested during NSF "virus scans"
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 14:18:11 -0500
------ Forwarded Message From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 13:52:40 -0500 To: George Sadowsky <George.Sadowsky () internews org> Cc: David Farber <dave () farber net> Subject: Re: [IP] Caution suggested during NSF "virus scans" On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 01:32:40PM -0500, David Farber quoted:
The National Science Foundation now has a policy that if you visit their building in Ballston and if you have a laptop with you, you must have it "scanned for viruses" even if you don't plan to open it up.
Amazing. Simply amazing. What if it's running an operating system for which there are no known viruses? For example, how would they scan my SparcBook running OpenBSD? And why? [ ObPeeve: AOL commercials warning of "computer viruses". A far more correct term is "Microsoft viruses". ] ---Rsk ------ End of Forwarded Message ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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