Interesting thing at college Induction day

[mdnky]

Originally Posted by nixgeek

Maybe it was a way of showing students to whatever class you took that gave those out about security. Some teachers are crazy like that you know...

I'd call it criminal and illegal if a professor did that. Stupid and lawsuit might also be good descriptions to use.

[nixgeek]

Originally Posted by mdnky

I'd call it criminal and illegal if a professor did that. Stupid and lawsuit might also be good descriptions to use.

I would probably agree, but if a teacher has tenure or if it was described in this class (especially if it's a security class) somewhere in the syllabus or something, then I guess that would be a way of informing someone. I'm sure if this was intended then the teacher would most likely give those students the solution to remove said issue without any adverse effects.

Common sense tells you to never insert something into a slot if you know nothing about it. Practice safe....computing.

That, or the teacher is just plain stupid.

[Graeme43]

Well it was given out a week before the course starts so its not as if you get the solution next day and its rated as medium damage

[davebz]

Originally Posted by nixgeek

Common sense tells you to never insert something into a slot if you know nothing about it. Practice safe....computing.

The same applies for electrical appliances, especially traveling from a 120 volt country to a 230 volt country. My mother knocked out the electricity on an entire floor of an Italian hotel using nothing more than a contact lens sterilizer!

Needless to say she needed a new pair of lenses.