RE: [Fed-Talk] RE: The Macbook air
RE: [Fed-Talk] RE: The Macbook air
- Subject: RE: [Fed-Talk] RE: The Macbook air
- From: "Fairbanks, Lee (contr-ird)" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 13:06:13 -0500
- Acceptlanguage: en-US
- Thread-topic: [Fed-Talk] RE: The Macbook air
We continually run into similar problems with our Apple stuff. I grow tired of the "if your agency policy disagrees with Apple's offerings, it is your agency that needs to change" mentality.
If anyone is monitoring this, we need the ability to order Apple systems without wireless or cameras. We can do this with all of our other vendors. Buying a new product, shipping it to a third party vendor so that they can open up and physically disable things is not the same thing at all.
I realize that Apple very much defines its brand message as non corporate, but trying to deal with the corporate side of things doesn't need to be so difficult. With things such as product lifecycles (ie - as soon as Steve announces the new xxxxxx, the old xxxxx is freaking never available again for sale - ever) I find myself having to apologize on behalf of Apple to my bosses...
Lee Fairbanks
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From: fed-talk-bounces+lee.fairbanks.ctr=email@hidden [mailto:fed-talk-bounces+lee.fairbanks.ctr=email@hidden] On Behalf Of Sanderson, David C CTR USA
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 10:21 AM
To: Beck, Keith M LCDR CNO-OPNAV; email@hidden
Subject: RE: [Fed-Talk] RE: The Macbook air
I don't think the camera needs to be disabled for the computer to exist.
It's where the computer can go, if it has a camera, and in many
organizations the places where you can have a camera would be so limited
that you couldn't use the computer anywhere you would be likely to be
working, except maybe at home. Any place that a stand alone camera
would be prohibited, so would a computer with a built in camera. The
end effect is that you can't have a computer with a camera on many, if
not most military bases, as well as many other government agencies, not
because its a computer with a camera but because it's a camera at all.
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On Behalf Of Beck, Keith M LCDR CNO-OPNAV
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 9:36 AM
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Subject: [Fed-Talk] RE: The Macbook air
Is there a reference requiring cameras to be disabled? Perhaps I'm
looking in the wrong place, but the current collaboration STIG and the
draft PC communications STIG don't see to require disabling cameras -
just a policy to control what can be in the camera view.
Current collaboration STIG:
http://iase.disa.mil/stigs/stig/collaboration_stig_v1r1.zip
Draft PC communications STIG:
http://iase.disa.mil/stigs/draft-stigs/index.html
Keith Beck
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Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 10:50:23 -0700
From: "Bell, Ian Frederick" <email@hidden>
Subject: [Fed-Talk] The Macbook air
To: "email@hidden" <email@hidden>
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Okay,
We are looking at getting the air onto our site , but we are running
into a snag from our vendor when it comes to the camera. The ability to
disable it has become a issue, do to the bezel thinness, and the
integration of the camera into the display connector amongst other
things. I was hoping those who read this could give me insight as to how
you are handling the air and its camera.
Ian
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