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> If he was a systems admin, there were undoubtedly other system admins around to keep an eye on each other. Of course. The question is are sys-admins as effe
by jlgreco 13y ago
> If he was a systems admin, there were undoubtedly other system admins around to keep an eye on each other.
Of course. The question is are sys-admins as effective at watching other sys-admins as they are at watching regular users? It seems reasonable that they are not, if only because sys-admins are more skilled than other users. Sys-admins likely also implicitly trust other sys-admins more than other users, not intentionally of course, but enough to bias their ability to see things.
- Someone 13y agoThat's why you frequently deploy moles who try to get away with something (e.g, with writing a password on a post-it), and seriously reprimand persons who do not report that. All your personnel must be paranoid; you cannot get there with only the real break-in/data theft attempts, as those are too rare. Also, you regularly shift the roles, turning an operator into a watcher and vice versa. Finally, you cannot have someone teamed up with the same person for weeks, because they might befriend each other and start to let things slip.