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Submission + - Security a top issue as teleworking grows

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coondoggie
coondoggie writes: "Security continues to dominate as IT's most pressing concern when it comes to supporting a large telecommuting workforce. But while security is a concern, teleworking, especially in the government realm, continues to grow at an impressive clip according to a study released by the CDW Government consultancy today. The group's report says during the past year, telework growth in the Federal government also outpaced the private sector: 35% of Federal teleworkers started teleworking, compared to 10% of private-sector teleworkers. It also said 44% of Federal employee respondents to the survey indicate that they have the option to telework — up 6% from 2006 — while 15% of private-sector employee respondents have that option, CDW says. http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/1263 3"
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Submission + - Central User Management w/Linux desktop and server

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mvip
mvip writes: "With the Desktop improvements of the latest releases of Ubuntu Desktop I'm seriously considering migrating one of the offices I administrate entirely over to Linux. All the software that is not available for Linux will run under Wine, so no problems as far as that is concerned.

My thoughts is to install a server with some Linux distribution (Ubuntu Server or Gentoo), and then Ubuntu Desktop on the clients (a handful of them). The only thing I really need from the server is to share files, but I would also like to have central user management.

Now, as far as I know there are two ways to go when it comes to central user authentication; Kerberos or Samba w/ PDC. Kerberos seems to be the 'Unix'-way to do it (recommended in FreeBSD's handbook) , while Samba PDC is more like a mixed-environment solution. Both of these solutions can use OpenLDAP as a back-end, which I need. As for the file-sharing, I guess NFS goes with Kerberos, while obviously Samba takes care of the Samba file-sharing.

What I really want to know is what kind of experience people have when it comes to this. Which is the most 'optimal' way to go, and what would work with the least amount of tweaking/hacking?

I posted on both Ubuntu and Gentoo's forum, but received little feedback."
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Submission + - Sweden a haven for digital identity theft

Submitted by paulraps
paulraps writes: Some 15 percent of the world's criminal servers are hosted in Sweden. When taken on a per capita basis, the figures — from Symantec's latest security report — mean that Sweden has the highest concentration of online criminal activity in the world. The reason given is not that Swedes are particularly criminally-inclined but that they have such a well-developed IT infrastructure. Nevertheless, Symantec says Sweden is a 'haven for digital identity theft'. The US still hosts the most 'underground economy' servers, though — 51 percent.

Are More Choices Really Better? 309

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the how-to-hit-the-off-switch-let-me-count-the-ways dept.
A. Bosch writes to mention that Joel Spolsky of Fog Creek software has a commentary that examines the need for choices in software. From the article: "This highlights a style of software design shared by Microsoft and the open source movement, in both cases driven by a desire for consensus and for 'Making Everybody Happy,' but it's based on the misconceived notion that lots of choices make people happy, which we really need to rethink." With software steadily becoming more sophisticated, are more choices really necessarily better?

MN Bill Would Require Use of Open Data Formats 176

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the enlightenment-is-contagious dept.
Andy Updegrove writes "A bill has been introduced in Minnesota that would require all Executive branch agencies to 'use open standards in situations where the other requirements of a project do not make it technically impossible to do this.' The text of the bill is focused specifically on 'open data formats.' While the amendment does not refer to open source software, the definition of 'open standards' that it contains would be conducive to open source implementations of open standards. The fact that such a bill has been introduced is significant in a number of respects. First, the debate over open formats will now be ongoing in two U.S. states rather than one. Second, if the bill is successful, the Minnesota CIO will be required to enforce a law requiring the use of open formats, rather than be forced to justify his or her authority to do so. Third, the size of the market share that can be won (or lost) depending upon a vendor's compliance with open standards will increase. And finally, if two states successfully adopt and implement open data format policies, other states will be more inclined to follow."

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