One Aging Geek

Thursday, May 20, 2004

Freedom to Tinker: Penn State: No Servers in Dorms

http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/archives/000606.html

One of the most interesting parts of the day was a brief presentation by Russ Vaught, the Associate Vice Provost for IT at Penn State. He said that Penn State has a policy banning server software of all kinds from dormitory computers. No email servers; no web servers; no DNS servers; no chat servers; no servers of any kind. The policy is motivated by a fear that server software might be used to infringe copyrights.

Wow! Ranks right up there among the stupidest policies I've ever heard of!