[IP] more on Caution suggested during NSF "virus scans"

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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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

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