Re: Progress is inevitable

["Paul Bennett" <paul.w.bennett () gmail com>]

On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:49:02 -0400, Ali, Saqib <docbook.xml () gmail com>  
wrote:

> > Traditional IT does that by constructing fool-proof procedures.
> > That's very, very difficult, because fools are so ingenious.  ;-)
>
> I think we have all worked on the never-ending projects that involved
> making the applications "user-proof". It is simply not possible....

Yeah, what's that line about the most secure system on the planet? Sealed  
in an impregnable Faraday-cage vault, not connected to the outside world  
in any way, not accessible to anyone?

What's the most-secure (by that standard) system y'all have had access to?

Mine's pretty mundane, being a plain ol' server room that you had to badge  
into separately from badging into the building. It did have a webcam up in  
one corner of the room that was visible to anyone on the company intranet,  
though. I guess that was to discourage you from doing anything you  
wouldn't want someone else to see (such as ... taking a fire-axe to a rack  
of fileservers?). Thankfully the stream was only 320x240, with a low frame  
rate, so carefully watching people log in was mostly out of the question.




--
Paul
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