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When I was reading this, I was thinking the same thing. Are the IT leads who put these systems in place forgetting the 90s?
by marquis 14y ago
When I was reading this, I was thinking the same thing. Are the IT leads who put these systems in place forgetting the 90s?
- nicholassmith 14y agoWhen the Wired author was hacked and it was first posted here about half of us jumped on 'shoulder surfed', 'is it possible to brute force' and half a dozen decent technical explanations. I think often people are now looking for the next over the top attack and forgetting the simplest tricks are often the most successful.
- rfugger 14y agoYou're assuming that anyone in these large organizations has enough control and pays enough attention to dictate how entire systems work. Usually it's more of a patchwork that gets developed over time by many people, none of whom sees the whole picture.