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From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Software/Hardware "lock"
Message-ID: <8810261440.aa15968@SMOKE.BRL.MIL>
Date: 26 Oct 88 19:10:27 GMT
References: <pyrnj!dasys1!vernonw@RUTGERS.EDU>
Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
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>A member of the NY Board of Ed (I think) was wondering if there is some method
>of having a hardware/software based lock on the Apple IIe used by a client. He
>wants to make it such that no programs may be run on the machine except those
>approved by the Board. (Note: this is only a rough rendering of a message
>left on a bulletin board, since the person in question has not yet contacted
>me about this question I'm posting what I understand to be his query.)

The notion seems antithetical to the concept of "education."  It also seems
a pretty fair example of the bureaucratic paranoia that accounts for the
fact that we're losing our edge as THE technogoical innovator and leader
in the World.  The "frontier spirit" never wasted energy on such regressive
proposals.

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U of Connecticut {rutgers psuvax1 ucbvax & in Europe - mcvax}
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