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"You would get laughed out the room and then fucking fired if you hooked anything critical up to the internet." Perhaps this happened where you were, and lucky
by hilbert42 2y ago
"You would get laughed out the room and then fucking fired if you hooked anything critical up to the internet."
Perhaps this happened where you were, and lucky you it seems you were in a good environment.
But back then I was in IT management and I had precious little power to stop it especially given other senior managers were the culprits. The operation had another function and not IT as its primary role. Moreover, I saw very simular problems in other organizations that I was familiar with.
Also, during that period I was with another outfit whose principal function was surveillance—not of people but of info and physical stuff and I can assure you that whilst the system worked well try as we might it wasn't watertight.
- kortilla 2y agoThis happened everywhere. I worked in a company offering management agents that had additional features if they hooked up to the internet (“cloud management” or “SaaS” before that term existed). Hospitals would never hook stuff to the internet. Industrial control systems, etc were all huge show stoppers. No offense, but I think you’re thinking of a later era. Most protocols back then had literally no auth or auth that was never deployed. The thought of critical systems safe enough to be exposed to the internet was just really unfathomable.