Re: to disable applescript
Re: to disable applescript
- Subject: Re: to disable applescript
- From: Sander Tekelenburg <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 00:25:29 +0100
At 11:27 -0500 UTC, on 2005/02/24, Jeremy Renner wrote:
> Monitoring a network of 600 high school students with iBooks. They have
>"student" accounts with limitations on the programs they can run. Students
>have figured out how to write an applescript (and use terminal) to tell
>computer to open their downloaded games, etc.
If they can do that then AS is not your problem. Even if you would manage to
cripple AS, they'd have access to Terminal.app. When you take away
Terminal.app, they can still download an alternative (iTerm is good) and
thusly still get shell access.
Besides that, I assume you want them to be allowed to have user space on
disk. If they also have 'Net access, or can insert a CD, or a USB stick, etc.
then they can place anything, games included, in their space and can thus run
them.
Lastly, what's wrong with them being able to play games? As long as they do
their homework, pass their exams, shouldn't they be allowed to play games?
Children can learn from games. And they /will/ learn to bypass any
restrictions you set up. IMO that's how it should be. It's a school. A school
should stimulate kids to learn, to discover the world (even when it's digital
;)), not to learn how to be shackled.
If you're worried about them cracking things, breaking into other 'puters,
spamming, spying on each other, etc. then maybe you should spend your energy
on offering a "computer ethics" class. People tend to be more receptive to
learning /why/ they shouldn't do something than to just plain being
forbidden/punished.
--
Sander Tekelenburg, <http://www.euronet.nl/~tekelenb/>
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