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explain what this means?
by apalmer 11y ago
explain what this means?
- oofabz 11y agoIf someone needs a tool to do their job, and they are supplied with a bad tool, there is a high chance they will use their own tool instead. If this goes poorly, both parties are to blame. Therefore if it is your job to keep communications secure, it is not enough to supply users with a secure system, it is also your job to supply them with a usable system.
- apalmer 11y agofundamentally as far as i can tell based on what i know of the details primarily based on the article here... sometimes in real life processes are by necessity awkward. 2 factor authentication is awkward, long complex alphanumeric password are awkward, not being able to use private thumbdrives on certain networks is awkwards... sometimes the secure alternative is awkward. she had as far as i can tell a usable system, i am under the impression it is usable because pretty much everyone else besides her and the president who have top level security clearance use the system and do their job...
- e12e 11y agoI remember seeing a great picture in a security presentation of some kind, and for the life of me I can't find it again. Basically it was a 10' tall sign outside of a maximum security prison that read: "Security is not a convenience".
- ethanbond 11y agoIt's weird that hundreds of thousands of other people with similar clearances don't run into this issue.
- edent 11y agoPeople treat inconvenience as damage and route around it. Ever see a password written on a sticky note & stuck to a monitor? The inconvenience of having to work to a certain level of security is highly awkward - so people reduce security in whatever way they can.
- apalmer 11y agounderstood. completely. fundamentally the situation here is the secretary of state chose to use a system which put information that potentially impacted millions of lives because she didn't want to have to log into a desktop to check her official emails when she was in her official office suite. full stop. step back. evaluate that honestly. thats all...
- ZeroGravitas 11y agoThe flip side of that is that anything you do to make the US Secretary of State's job harder, also directly affects millions of lives.