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.

  • Muscle_Meteor@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    This is what i have to do to log into microsoft fuckin teams on my work laptop when i work from home…

    1. Unencrypt my laptop hardrive
    2. Log into my OS
    3. Log into the VPN
    4. Log into teams
    5. Use the authenticator app on my phone to enter the code that is on my screen
    6. Use my fingerprint on my phone to verify that i am the person using my phone…

    Step 5 was introduced a few months ago because the other steps weren’t secure enough. This is why half my colleagues aren’t available when they work from home…

    I suggested that we just use slack as our work chat and leave teams as a red herring to dissapoint extremely talented hackers.