The Clackamas Prin t?
Wednesday, Feb 29, 2012
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CCC pays thousands for
virus protection
By Nora Goodman
The Clackamas Print
'' 1 - can access porn on the Clackamas
Community College campus.
Despite the’fact that CCC shells out hun
dreds o f dollars every month to keep our. com
puters ‘secure’ with a web filter contracted out
to Barracuda Networks, you can still weedle
your way through their filter and get a little
XXX action.
According to Kim Carey, head of ITS,
viruses are the main reason that the college
installed the web filter.
“Viruses from the web have become just as
big an issue as viruses from email. We become
vulnerable to spyware and malware which can
make our users computers nonfunctional; log
our key strokes to obtain passwords and other
sensitive information that compromise our
security not just on the local PC, but also on
our network,” said Carey.,
The college has set up.a three-year con
tract with Barracuda Networks, paying $834
a month plus hardware cost. By the end of
the third year CCC, will have spent at least
$30,000 on the web filter, which seems to
have some pretty wide gaps. '
The colfege, however, has a very positive
opinioniof the filter. Although the cost might
seem like a loti Carey believes that the cost
is balanced by reducing the frequency ITS
will need to repair and restore networks and
computers.
“There is also the impact to the user who is
unable to .use -their computer once it has been
infected, resulting in lost productivity and
.interruptionto work,” said Carey.. .
and very public, delight, maybe it’s doing jt&
job.
“It’s preventing viruses to enter and since
students search YouTube and other free
streaming media sites all the time. Those sites
are full of malware and viruses, so spending
$834 a month to save hundreds of computers
from failure seems viable and a smart thing
to do,” said Paul Rios, a computer, science
student and Excel tutor.
CCC doesn’t recommend using the com
puters on campus for social media, which
could lead to viruses. -
“CCC values the use and sees the effect of
social media in the world and as a part of our
learning community,”, said Rick Sparks, direc
tor of technical services.,
, Most of the time we don’t realize that our
computer has been compromised until our
bankcard is reporting irregular activity, our
email account is spewing spam or our web
browser is, hijacked. Setting things straight
after such an intrusion can takes days,.months
or years to recover. .The college’s hope is that
this layer of protection is transparent in such
a way that our users would say, “Nope, that
didn’t happen to me, just lucky, I guess.”; .<
CCC filters for known malicious sites
whose purpose is phishing and fraud, illegal,
distribution of copy written materials, spy-
ware, malware and pornography at levels that
cross legal, statutory or regulatory boundaries.
. “If for any reason our service provider
returns a ‘false positive’ on a website requested
on our campus, please ask your instructor to
call the IT Helpdesk at [extension] 3500 and
we can add the website to the priority list and
override the pfotection layer,” said $parks,
vent viruses from sinking thei r teeth in to the
computers on campus, rather than stopping
onlookers from enjoying a little afternoon,
uses on campus may be assured that personal
information is safe, but porn cansrafoccupy
the computers here.
I f th e m a in p u r p o se o f th e filter is to p r e
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Is graduate school in your future?
You are a racist;
believe it or not!
By James Duncan
Design Editor
Everyone is a little bit rac
ist. That includes you. No
matter how hard you have
tried to be the epitome of
political correctness, .you are
a racist, and that is exacdy
why.
As February ends we find
ourselves drifting farther
away from what seems to
be the greatest affront to the
talization in our society:
ck History Month.
While history is Impor
tant, it seems to me that BHM
does a. great deal more to
discourage the acceptance of
others than it does to inform
people about the tribulations
that African Americans went
through from the founding
o f America to today.
- Slaveryis stiH, relatively,
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Ku Klux Kian it’s all the same.
fresh in o u r cu ltu re. 1 5 0 years
T h e harder p e o p le try th e
ago slaves were ‘freed,’ but
well into the ‘50s, ‘60s and
‘70s the black community
suffered through segregation
and a society that was unwill
ing to give them a chance
due to the stereotypes and
generational hatred mat had
ermeated American culture,
ut that isn’t the topic at
hand.
The problem that people
here are facing is over-com-
>ensation. As a whole people
eel so bad about the way’
‘minorities’ have been treated
over the years that now they
need to be treated special. We
need to have BHM or latino
History Month orany other
variation of ‘Insert Racial
Identity’ History Month. It
feels like we are creating a gap
between people. By labeling
it black history or Arab his
tory or anything other than
history! People áre just beg
ging to keep everyone sepa
rate, but equal. There aren’t
black people and tan people
and white people there are
just people. Everyone is the
same ana we all share a com
mon history.
History is the record of
more racist they-are.;.
' One of many things that
has made race relations in
this country difficult was the
introduction of affirmative
action. At one point in his-.
tory it helped - to allow the
persecuted minorities of our
country to be treated with
some degree of equality, but
it is a system gone mad.
It makes the hiring process
more difficult for business
es by forcing them to have
a quota of minorities? ’ By
doing this employers over
look better or equally quali
fied people in favor o f some
body because of their race.
The thing that bothers me
is that it doesn’t seem like
people understand that over
compensating bv treating
minorities’ special is still rac
ism and persecution. So long
as there are people who are
being treated special because
of the color of their skin, eth
nic identity or anything else
there will be racism and per
secution. A lack of persecu
tion is not preferential treat
ment; it is the continuation
of discrimination through
over-compensation.
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past events and times, espe
cially in connection with
the human race. (Webster’s
Dictionary)
That’s right. The human
race: all history pertains to
everyone equally. By saying
that there is such a thing
as black history, people are
making It seem special and
separate from the whole of
human history.
Maybe next year we can all
recognize ‘History. Month,’
acknowledging all the people
who have championed the
cause of acceptance in our
country and overcome adyer-
sity in the face of overwhelm-
i ng odds
There has been a hard fight
in America for the rights of
people other than white-men
and that needs to be part of
our collective history because
the most important thing
about rights is that everyone
has them Because the.simple
truth is no one is special.
No one group is special. We
are the human race, nothing
more and certainly not less.
To treat human history with
more reverence than a certain
roup just because it is the
istory of a specific race is
racism. Be it BHM. or the
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