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.

  • Noble Shift
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    468 months ago

    InfoSec guy here for the salty tears of the unwashed masses …

    • @tty5
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      148 months ago

      I’m torn if I should be nodding and patting myself on the back for not doing any of this insanity or cackling and taking notes…

      • @KrudlerOP
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        8 months ago

        Taking notes?!? If you can’t make idiotic decisions on your own, you’re not much of an IT guy to begin with.