FC3 Security

[Pedro Fernandes Macedo]

Scot L. Harris wrote:

>I don't know about this particular university but students tend to do
>stupid things given half a chance.  And some of them are quite
>knowledgeable regarding networks and those things called computers.  :)
>  
>
A simple sample of how a student can do a stupid thing and annoy the IT 
personnel and half of the other users:

The teacher , during the Operating Systems class , mentions that most 
OSs dont limit the allocation of memory and
that with a excessive use of memory allocation without freeing , you 
could crash any machine.
Student goes out of class , logs in the main machine used by everyone in 
the department , and compiles a simple
while(1) { malloc } program.... He runs it once.. Machine goes offline.. 
Probably thinking it was just a coincidence ,
he runs it again... And a third time ... No wonder he got his account 
suspended for 1 month ;)

So , yes.. Students will do something stupid if they have the chance 
(and trust me... there's lots of chances for stupid things)

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Pedro Macedo