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Message-ID: <20110429154415.92211kphnx8eiqlw@jabea.net> Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:44:15 -0400 From: phil <jabea@...ea.net> To: taneja.security@...il.com Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk Subject: Re: Computer name should match with your real identity? > > Recently got a policy from admin to change your PC name with your "name" + > organisation name. > The funnier with that thread, is that if you tell us that as a normal user, then that mean that you are a local admin, and most of user must be local admin if they sent that policy to everyone. Kinda a security issue just there, the computer name is just not important. who care your computer name when netbios traffic stay local on your lan. (ex, your co-worker must already know your name, i hope so) -phil _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
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