Re:University doing a favor (Score 1)

For the amount of information they have, Universities really do have poor security. Even as a first year student worker in one of their IT departments, I had ridiculously easy access to SSN's, grades, and financial aid data all because the higher-ups had no idea that windows shares on servers needed passwords. My experience with clean access is that it has almost nothing to do with security. It checks a computer's antivirus definitions and then gives it an IP address- basically saving the network support people from having to track down infected computers that flood the network with broadcast traffic. It is also unreliable and often refuses to give IP addresses even when definitions are up to date. If clean access was anything like it was at my school, the student probably wrote it merely so he could get online to check his email one day when he couldn't get an IP address- and the school probably freaked out because all the other students would want to use the software too- leaving their network admins with more work when the next virus comes out.