Re: to get people off the twitter thread - here is smth quite fun + security + SHOCKING

[Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk>]

Anton Chuvakin wrote:

> http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/now-new-next/2009/03/the-high-priests-of-it.html

Nothing new, interesting and especially not shocking about it all...

Except, perjhaps, that someone otherwise so apparently smart as Cory 
Doctorow hasn't heard of appropriate separation of tasks and resources 
before -- that was exactly what his father's mainfarme-generation IT 
geeks did, so he should have been aware of it all his life.

It is exactly what "least privilege", etc, etc, etc is all about.

Yes -- most IT shops have been too stupid/lazy/cheap to provide multiple 
network and multiple client computer setups, where appropriate, since 
desktop computers became common and networking (more or less) universal, 
but it's not because the concept was unknown...


Regards,

Nick FitzGerald


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