[OPLINTECH] Allow software on public computers other than what's installed?

[Phil Shirley]

Same. Thanks for your thoughts, and for putting them so well, Chad.

Any other opinions? I can imagine there must be some security risk in 
allowing this, though of course everything we do is a balance between 
security and service, and the risks here don't seem inordinate.

Phil

On 2/20/2019 7:04 PM, Chad Neeper via OPLINTECH wrote:
> Years ago I used to lock the computers down pretty tightly. Computers 
> were relative a new thing in libraries and librarians were more 
> paranoid. These days, patron computers are logged in with user-level 
> privileges and they all have Deep Freeze. So I take the attitude that 
> if a patron can install a program without elevated privileges, they're 
> welcome to do it. I don't care. That's exactly what I tell the staff. 
> I also don't lock them down nearly as heavily as I used to. They're 
> all on isolated/firewalled network segments and are frozen. So they're 
> cleaned out at every reboot. This allows for maximum utility for 
> whatever the patron needs, while keeping the library's network 
> safe/secure. This is the approach I've taken for the last ~10 years or 
> more and it's worked quite well. YMMV!
>
> Chad
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> On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 3:39 PM Phil Shirley via OPLINTECH 
> <oplintech at lists.oplin.org <mailto:oplintech at lists.oplin.org>> wrote:
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>     Do you allow patrons to run software on public computers other
>     than what's installed? That would include portable software and I
>     suppose even browser extensions.
>
>     Phil
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