Security Flaws

[ysabetwordsmith]

 A crucial and immovable flaw in many security systems is humans.  If people can't get something to work properly, they will find a way to make it work improperly.  I find that there are a great many places online that I don't think need passwords.  It's just something I don't want to fuck around with for trivial uses.  So either I don't go there, or I work around it.  The problem comes when people do exactly the same thing with a really, really important system.

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Sadly, I kept thinking, "how is this news?"

[dialecticdreamer]

Not because I'm indifferent to computer security, but because I haven't seen any improvement in day-to-day SECURITY on computers since the days of BBSing and floppy drives.

My husband's job involves computers, and well, the end users who should bleeping well KNOW better are exactly as bad as the article implied for the health care workers. But from his viewpoint, the particularly ONEROUS and STUPID directives to control network security come from the "computer experts" who don't give a fig about the individual or group needs FOR their precious secured computer system.

He's just a stuck as the end users, in this case. The frustration levels can be appalling.

Re: Sadly, I kept thinking, "how is this news?"

[ysabetwordsmith]

One of the bitterest things of all: it doesn't matter how smart you are or how much you know, if you are not the decider.