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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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[-] Dicska@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nah mate, they were completely right. What if you install an older version, and keep using it maliciously? Oh wait, now that you mention, I'm totally sure Edge had a similar problem at one point in the past. So refrain from using Edge, too. Or Explorer. And while we're at it, it's best to stay away from Chrome, as well. That had a similar vulnerability before, I'm sure. So let's dish that, along with Opera, Safari, Maxthon and Netscape Navigator. Just use Lynx, it's super lightweight!

EDIT: on another thought, you should just have stopped working for the above reason. Nothing is safe anymore.

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

Can't use Lynx either.

https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2010-2810/

All web pages must now be phoned in via a touch-tone system, and delivered on paper printouts via regular post.

[-] PoolloverNathan@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Touch-tones had some sort of vulnerability too; you're going to have to mail in your HTTP requests.

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