Booting grub with the Fedora PXE vmlinuz/initrd images allows you to perform a network installation of Fedora over any existing linux distro, should you not be able to write to or boot from the conventional CD/DVD install media. A PXE netinstall can both be done locally, and with extra care, remotely using VNC. Both methods are explained in this HOWTO.
via Installing Fedora Using PXE Images — Fedora Unity Project.
They can’t get the passcode into your cloud resources, and they don’t have the ability to generate the passcode. You don’t have to go that far, of course, but the point is that if there’s no local data on the device in normal use, there’s no local data on the device that can be stolen.
via Die, VPN! We’re all “telecommuters” now—and IT must adjust.
Here are a couple of interesting comments covering both sides of this issue:
I work in a large IT org in a large company. THis issue keeps creeping up all the time. I think most end users just really want access to email, ccontacts, calender and IM – this tends to cover at least 80% of the use cases. This can be done with a digital cert and loginid/password – without installing a VPN client. It took a while to convince the security group to do this. Full layer 3 routing access to the network should be for sensitive apps like SAP, etc. Sadly though most IT departments will continue to drive that square peg into that round hole.Hey, IPV6 will solve all our problems. LoL 🙂
“People want to use their own smart phones and tablets for work, but that practice can create major headaches for businesses’ IT departments,” says Chris Hill, part of AT&T’s Advanced Mobility Solutions group. “Toggle helps resolve the issue in a simple, affordable manner.”
via One Smart Phone, Two Personalities – Technology Review.
No doubt someone will get a patent for this — for multiple users on a single device — something that has been going on since the first mainframe.
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