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>If you have an office where random people can walk in off the street and out again unfettered, that's probably an even greater vulnerability to your company th
by impendia 7y ago
>If you have an office where random people can walk in off the street and out again unfettered, that's probably an even greater vulnerability to your company than anything Zoom is doing.
This is my point, in reverse.
I work in a university. Thousands of students come each day, to attend class, to show up to professors' office hours, to attend special events. Having physical security in the building would be a huge pain, extremely impractical. I have never heard anyone call for it.
Are there problems? Yes, but they are either minor or very rare. For example, sales reps for publishers will walk in and go to professors' offices door to door. A nuisance to be sure, but not that common.
Occasionally there are more serious problems. For example, in 1978, a Stanford professor was murdered by a disgruntled former grad student [1]. If this sort of thing was even remotely common, I expect you'd see some building security. But it's not.
In the analog world, on average people are just not all that concerned about security. I'm not terribly convinced that they should be.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Streleski https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Streleski
- rhizome 7y agoUniversities are kind of a special case, I wouldn't generalize on them.