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I truly do not trust Braintree as a secure payment service. As a company, they host an asinine number of public events at their 100+ person meeting hall at Chi

I truly do not trust Braintree as a secure payment service. As a company, they host an asinine number of public events at their 100+ person meeting hall at Chicago's Merchandise Mart. To get to that hall, you have to walk about 200ft past all of their workstations and meeting rooms. Infrastructure diagrams and unlocked workstations are pretty much everywhere. Sure, they do a few things to mitigate the risks of people who come in by requiring sign-ins and presumably cameras everywhere, but it still feels very surreal to be a few meters away from having potential access to a large payment processor's infrastructure. I've seen at least one person there who was very clearly using a burner laptop.

pc86 9y ago
As an employee, how is walking away from your computer without locking it even remotely accessible? Granted most of my experience is healthcare and government but I've worked placed where leaving your computer open and unlocked if you were more than an arm's length away from it was a fire-able offense. I'm not saying that's an appropriate response, but come on... it's downright negligent, especially if you're dealing with anything even remotely sensitive.
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- chris72205 9y ago
  I lock my computer habitually even if I'm just walking over to a co-workers desk. I find it funny though, because I was forced into this habit from my days in school where leaving your computer open/unlocked meant coming back to all sorts of pranks.
  - diggernet 9y ago
    Same here. Great way to learn the importance of basic security habits.
- brandonbloom 9y ago
  By all means, lock your machine when you walk away from it. Just don't pretend that would provide any protection against strangers walking through your office for even a few seconds. Here's a USB dongle that's actually a key-logger with 2GB of storage and WiFi offloading for about $150 bucks available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Wi-Fi-Premium-Hardware-Keylogger-compatibility/dp/B00ENIVRDE https://www.amazon.com/Wi-Fi-Premium-Hardware-Keylogger-comp... Options as cheap as $50 are available if you're willing to accept less storage and risk a second physical contact to recover your device (no WiFi).

pc86 9y ago

As an employee, how is walking away from your computer without locking it even remotely accessible? Granted most of my experience is healthcare and government but I've worked placed where leaving your computer open and unlocked if you were more than an arm's length away from it was a fire-able offense. I'm not saying that's an appropriate response, but come on... it's downright negligent, especially if you're dealing with anything even remotely sensitive.

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chris72205 9y ago
I lock my computer habitually even if I'm just walking over to a co-workers desk. I find it funny though, because I was forced into this habit from my days in school where leaving your computer open/unlocked meant coming back to all sorts of pranks.
- diggernet 9y ago
  Same here. Great way to learn the importance of basic security habits.
brandonbloom 9y ago
By all means, lock your machine when you walk away from it. Just don't pretend that would provide any protection against strangers walking through your office for even a few seconds. Here's a USB dongle that's actually a key-logger with 2GB of storage and WiFi offloading for about $150 bucks available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Wi-Fi-Premium-Hardware-Keylogger-compatibility/dp/B00ENIVRDE https://www.amazon.com/Wi-Fi-Premium-Hardware-Keylogger-comp... Options as cheap as $50 are available if you're willing to accept less storage and risk a second physical contact to recover your device (no WiFi).