On Tue, May 12, 2009 14:30, Steven Fischer wrote:
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> By enacting this policy, the school is limiting:
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> 1. Their legal exposure and liability.

Actually, on the contrary.
By searching non-owned computers for software, it could be argued that the
school then has lost common carrier status and has become liable for all
illegal content on such computers.
That could also mean unlicensed software. Do you know if that copy of MS
Office on the student's computer is licensed???
In other words, you'd open a whole new can of worms, which you could only
prevent by not allowing any non-organization-owned computers on the
network.
If that's your policy, fine. Quite a number of companies indeed do that
(although they may make exceptions for the CEO's personal laptop...)

-Joe