[nina0113]

Are there people in the U.S. government who might bring a laptop home, say, and connect it to a LAN at their house?

Several years ago, I was working for a defense contractor, & an utter NITWIT used his manager's laptop to do classified work on, in the office, because his PC was being replaced. He wasn't supposed to be doing classified work on his own either, but he was too lazy to walk down the hall to the secure computer room which had NO external connections. When the security officer found out about it,

• the manager's computer was reformatted, no data removed first, immediately (and was she p!ssed)
• the culprit spent a very bad afternoon with security (he was eventually fired, but it took a few more months)

Most people (not the nitwit) know better than to carry classified work home.

[stylin_geek]

I know it would not be hard to set up some kind of data polling of all computers in a sensitive area to track whether or not some knucklehead is doing something he (or she) shouldn't. By the way, I am very very tired of people claiming how wonderful Unix is. I have supported both, and Unix servers have their own set of problems, just like Windows. And, easily, 90% of the time when either a Windows or Unix machine goes down, it is because the end user did something stupid.