Wow! From an InfoSec perspective, that’s hard to believe but when you understand that every large group of humans has competing interests and large bureaucracie

Wow! From an InfoSec perspective, that’s hard to believe but when you understand that every large group of humans has competing interests and large bureaucracies don’t have perfect chains of command, it’s totally believable. I guess it’s a high-stakes example of the difficulty in getting the right balance between security and convenience. Edit: on a related note, a few years ago I was shocked to hear the story of how a simple accident while carrying out routine maintenance of liquid-fuelled nuclear missiles almost resulted in a devastating nuclear explosion in the American heartland: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/634/human-error-in-volatile-situations/act-one-1 https://www.thisamericanlife.org/634/human-error-in-volatile...