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Tech workers - what did your IT Security team do that made your life hell and had no practical benefit? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Krudler@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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One chestnut from my history in lottery game development:

While our security staff was incredibly tight and did a generally good job, oftentimes levels of paranoia were off the charts.

Once they went around hot gluing shut all of the "unnecessary" USB ports in our PCs under the premise of mitigating data theft via thumb drive, while ignoring that we were all Internet-connected and VPNs are a thing, also that every machine had a RW optical drive.

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[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I do this in protest of asinine password change rules.

Nobody's gonna see it since my monitor is at home, but it's the principle of the thing.

[-] residentmarchant@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

A truly dedicated enough attacker can and will look in your window! Or do fancier things like enable cameras on devices you put near your monitor

Not saying it's likely, but writing passwords down is super unsafe

[-] Krudler@lemmy.world 57 points 1 year ago

What you are describing is the equivalent of somebody breaking into your house so they can steal your house key.

[-] curve_empty_buzz@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 1 year ago

No, they're breaking into your house to steal your work key. The LastPass breach was accomplished by hitting an employee's personal, out of date, Plex server and then using it to compromise their work from home computer. Targeting a highly privileged employees personal technology is absolutely something threat actors do.

[-] Krudler@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

The point is if they're going to get access to your PC it's not going to be to turn on a webcam to see a sticky note on your monitor bezel. They're gonna do other nefarious shit or keylog, etc.

[-] residentmarchant@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Why keylog and pick up 10k random characters to sift through when the password they want is written down for them?

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