From: "Geo" 

"John Beckett"  wrote
in message news:fpq9k19od4ntbh0flgobh19p4kclbgqetn{at}4ax.com...

> Fast-forwarding to the future by, say, two years:
> The only half-way decent procedure to allow a roaming laptop to have
> remote access to your network is to require that the laptop be running a
> DRM-protected system, including hardware, BIOS and OS. That way, you will
> know that only trusted software is running on the machine.

Nope, roming laptops can have the hard drives removed and replaced with
blank so that some new install can be used. It should not be considered a
trusted machine.

> Anything less than the Microsoft/Intel/et-al DRM initiative means you just
> won't be able to allow roaming machines to connect to the core office
> network.

I let them connect now, I just don't give them unrestricted access.

Geo.

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