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Sometimes security is annoying, and sometimes security means you don't get to do what you needed to do. An event with hundreds or thousands of people should hav
by mseebach 8y ago
Sometimes security is annoying, and sometimes security means you don't get to do what you needed to do. An event with hundreds or thousands of people should have rehearsals and spare speaker laptops, but if they don't, your need to present doesn't trump your (or someone else's) employer's cyber security stance.
Show up at a building site without your helmet and hiwiz? Unless there's a spare set around, you're going home. We need to get into the same mindset around cyber security.
- ghaff 8y agoIt's going to depend on the circumstances and, perhaps, we really will decide over time that moving USB keys among untrusted laptops is simply a bridge too far. But, literally just this afternoon, used a USB stick to transfer a presentation to a (supposedly clean) speaker laptop that hadn't been preloaded like it was supposed to be. The circumstances (~100 person event, no rehearsals or heavyweight IT support) made that seem reasonable. Cybersecurity is indeed important. But it's about managing risk, not minimizing it no matter the cost. And what I'd do at an event like this one is quite different from Defcon where I'd take the most stringent precautions possible.
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