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One of my clients, a well known fixture in American finance, has been hacked by employees or contractors several times over the past 10 years. These cases have
by ryanmarsh 10y ago
One of my clients, a well known fixture in American finance, has been hacked by employees or contractors several times over the past 10 years. These cases have been public and supposedly cost millions (it's so hard to know how accurate the assessed damages in these cases are).
Because they now fear employees and contractors more than external threats it takes 30 tickets to different groups to set up a server. You can't chown a file in a directory you own without a ticket. You can use one of two old text editors. No new IDE's or modern text editors. You can't upgrade language runtimes without corp. approval. It's nuts. Ironically it leads to more attack vectors and it's ground their software dev to a halt.
- ElijahLynn 10y agoSounds like that company is crippled by fear and is slowly dying.
- ryanmarsh 10y agoIt is. It should be nearly gone in 20 years, for other reasons as well.
- arcanus 10y agoI would also guess they have seen a flight of any talent to jobs at other companies.
- ryanmarsh 10y agoYes major brain drain.
- st3v3r 10y agoAll because they decided that was easier than simply treating their employees like human beings.
- pc86 10y ago> has been hacked by employees or contractors several times over the past 10 years It's simply an overreaction to risk. Just like insisting the company doesn't treat its employees like human beings is also an overreaction (and gross oversimplification of what is actually a complicated topic).
- digi_owl 10y agoI am seeing much the same attitude out of FOSS these days. Taking away options in the name of "user confusion" and "security". In effect they do not trust the end user to not shoot themselves in the foot. aka, paternalism on a grand scale.