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.

  • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
    102·
    1 year ago

    Or it prompts people to just stick their “super secure password” with byzantine special character, numeral, and capital letter requirements to their monitor or under their keyboard, because they can’t be arsed to remember what nonsensical piece of shit they had to come up with this month just to make the damn machine happy and allow them to do their jobs.

    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
      451·
      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.worldEnglish
        924·
        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.worldOPEnglish
          573·
          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
            215·
            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 The LastPass breach was accomplished by hitting an employee’s personal, out of date, Plex server and then using it to compromise their work from home computer.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.worldOPEnglish
              14·
              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.worldEnglish
                63·
                1 year ago

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

                • Rooty@lemmy.world
                  51·
                  1 year ago

                  Again, how is the attacker going to see a piece of paper that is stuck to the side of the screen? This rule makes sense in high traffic areas, but in a private persons home? The attacker would also need to be a burglar.