Speaking as someone who’s worked contracts in secure facilities, I can say from experience that no one working in a place like this is even mildly surprised. The extent to which ‘learned blindness’ is applied should worry people still assuming that vaunted organizations or even government facilities are protected by strong security policies instead of mostly by the base restriction of non-authorized personnel from work areas.
Not naming names, but if your org doesn’t use the classic Admin & Password defaults, and forces you to renew your terminal passwords on a regular basis, don’t write it down on a Post It and stick it to your fucking monitor where anyone walking past can see. The sheer scale of the incompetence here is galling, in that teenagers have a better sense for passwords than the Louvre security & tech team apparently.
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Not naming names, but if your org doesn’t use the classic Admin & Password defaults, and forces you to renew your terminal passwords on a regular basis, don’t write it down on a Post It and stick it to your fucking monitor where anyone walking past can see.
Got it. I’ll write it down on a Post It, take a photo, and will make that my desktop background instead.
Speaking as someone who’s worked contracts in secure facilities, I can say from experience that no one working in a place like this is even mildly surprised. The extent to which ‘learned blindness’ is applied should worry people still assuming that vaunted organizations or even government facilities are protected by strong security policies instead of mostly by the base restriction of non-authorized personnel from work areas.
Not naming names, but if your org doesn’t use the classic Admin & Password defaults, and forces you to renew your terminal passwords on a regular basis, don’t write it down on a Post It and stick it to your fucking monitor where anyone walking past can see. The sheer scale of the incompetence here is galling, in that teenagers have a better sense for passwords than the Louvre security & tech team apparently.
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Got it. I’ll write it down on a Post It, take a photo, and will make that my desktop background instead.
Don’t forget to have that photo automatically backed up to your personal cloud storage!
Post the photo to every social media site available - so everyone knows you are safe and secure!
Yeah you gotta put the post it under your keyboard /s