[2263] in APO News
Re: office security
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard J. Barbalace)
Mon Dec 2 09:39:13 1996
To: lewisac@MIT.EDU
Cc: apo-news@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 02 Dec 1996 01:59:15 -0500.
<9612020659.AA07811@vongole.MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 02 Dec 1996 09:37:28 EST
From: "Richard J. Barbalace" <rjbarbal@MIT.EDU>
> so i don't think this is good. anyone know what we might do about it?
Well, there are several problems here:
1) An MIT student was inconvenienced.
2) A janitor was inconvenienced.
3) Office security could have been compromised.
4) Our reputation probably just got a little bit worse.
There is, of course, a simple solution to this:
We should not take the MIT Card from students.
I see no problem with an MIT student returning our supplies and retrieving
her needed card, especially with a janitor overseeing her. If we don't
trust janitors, we're screwed anyway. If we don't trust students, we're
screwed anyway. This situation is our fault, not the student's or the
janitor's.
YiLFS & premonishment.
+ Richard
