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> I don't understand why it's not a crime to have sensitive information on [[vulnerable]] computers (...) Easiest question under the Sun: it's legal and consi
by dexen 15y ago
> I don't understand why it's not a crime to have sensitive information on [[vulnerable]] computers (...)
Easiest question under the Sun:
it's legal and considered perfectly OK because the software, network gear and configuration comes with the right documents. As long as the documents say the right procedures were applied during development and deployment, it's considered OK.
What do you expect, particular software and network gear being declared too vulnerable merely because everybody with relevant experience know and have experienced how vulnerable it is? Bureaucracies don't work that way; never did and probably never will.
We may want to have a way to counter such useless documents to make our countries' infrastructure safer, but that's not the easiest quest under the Sun anymore...
- rdtsc 15y agoGood insight. A lot of security breach management just involves having someone else to point a finger too. It is about hiring contractors that have paper credentials and then when shit hits the fan they can point to them and say "look we hired the best, if they can't do it, nobody can." In the government world is it about passing the security script test, having the right stamps on your cerificates that consist of random 4 letter words.