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I agree. Locking my front door is trivially circumventable. It is pretty easy to pick up a rock and break a window. Or use a heavy instrument to break down the
by jacobr1 8y ago
I agree. Locking my front door is trivially circumventable. It is pretty easy to pick up a rock and break a window. Or use a heavy instrument to break down the door. Or heck, a car could just go crashing through the wall. But that lock is a pretty good deterrent from casual abuse. It requires crossing a psychological barrier into the explicitly illegal and malicious realm.
- ricardobeat 8y agoThat's a sensible analogy on the surface, but the difference is that having to lock the door doesn't - end up forcing you to lock it from the inside, and then crawl out the window - have your friend who is visiting request a door-opening-token 24hr in advance through a JIRA ticket - cause the power to go out once it's locked, also for security reasons - force you to replace the keys with 'special' plastic ones from a new third-party vendor - leave you stranded outside for a few hours because the door-opening system is having an outage Those are the kind of trade-offs that will be made, not simply the act of locking the door.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoIt's also the reason why people mail sensitive data to their private mailboxes and that no matter how hard some companies try, they can't make their employees stop using Excel as their primary work tool. 'arcbyte over at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19827012 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19827012 does have a point - a lot of potential exfil risk is caused by companies doing their best to make it as difficult as possible for their employees to do their jobs.