p2p PUBLIC EDUCATION

School Public Access Systems

"There are many legitimate uses for P2P technology.
Among the entities that use BitTorrent are NASA,
Red Hat Fedora, NetBSD and ironically Time-Warner
Should ISPs (including the university in its role as an ISP for faculty, staff, and students) have the responsbility for proactively blocking illegal traffic?  If so, how can they distinguish between, say, a stolen Time-Warner movie
and the legitimate copy that's being redistributed via
BitTorrent at Time-Warner's explicit request?
Do we give up one of the fundamental tenets of the Internet architeture, the notion that endpoints determine what traffic flows, rather than the center?  In this regard, it is worth remembering that the three most radical Internet innovations -- the Web, Napster, and Skype -- came not from ISPs, "official" standards bodies (i.e., the IETF or the ITU), or major research labs or universities, but from the edges of the Net.  (Yes, I know that CERN is a major research lab, but for physics!)" ~ Steve Bellovin

At PCPS we use both WinGuardian and Fortress to prevent students from installing or deleting software on our public access systems.

1. First, I install Windows 95 Custom to insure that I pick the componants I desire. If you are purchasing Dell's Windows will come pre-installed. Go to the Control Panel Add/Remove Programs and check the installation componants, adding the ones you want and deleting the ones you don't.
2. Second, I use TweakUI, to set up the desktop and other options the way I want.
3. Third, I install all of the application software and set-up the defaults the way I want them.
4. Fourth, I use PolEdit from the MicroSoft PowerToys to set various policies for my users.
5. Fifth, I use regedit to make an export copy of the Current_User/Software and Local_Machine /Software keys. This creates two files with a *.reg name. When a student changes the software setting double-click on the two *.reg files and back to default.
   
   Please note that unless you disable Password caching every user & set the Password profile to every user uses the same profile, they will get a copy of the desktop, start menu & registry in their profile directory.
   
6. Sixth, I install either WinGuardian or Fortress, (different departments wanted different protection schemes) and set the protection policies needed.
7. Seventh, I use Ghost to copy the hard drive of the standard system to all of the others. I keep the one standard system for testing purposes and reuse Ghost whenever, a new machine comes in or I wish to upgrade or change an application.

Roy G. Schriftman, MS, MBA
Instructor Computer Science, Manager Computer Laboratory
[e] r.schrif at usip dot edu

FYI
MediaSentry, is the service that scours peer-to-peer networks for the Internet-protocol numbers of copyright infringers used by Steven Marks, general counsel for the
Recording Industry Association of America who goes after college students.

Jimmy Lovine will no longer be employed by Universal Music.  He is will run LimeWire, the P2P service based on the Gnutella protocol. All the music you can eat for about $10.00 a month. About Gnutella, P2P GNU, Bit Torrent, Darknet and Waste an encrypted p2p application meant chiefly for secure communication.

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