Comments on: Misguided security https://dfarq.homeip.net/misguided-security/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=misguided-security David L. Farquhar on technology old and new, computer security, and more Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:53:43 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymous https://dfarq.homeip.net/misguided-security/#comment-5929 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:53:43 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=1876#comment-5929 I’m sure between the two of us, we could write a
book’s worth of examples. And maybe we should.

Recently I heard through a friend-of-a-friend about a
client who was repeatedly having heat issues in his
server room. The final solution? Propping the server
room’s door to the outside open.

Recently I visited a friend’s doctor’s office only to
discover they had a completely wireless router
connected to their network. Combine that with a
Windows 2003 server that had never been patched
(not even SP1), and you have a recipe for disaster
right there.

One of the slickest tricks I’ve ever seen involved
putting self-running viruses on a USB stick and then
leaving the stick(s) lying around in corporate
bathrooms. I believe the people that tried that had a
100% success rate.

We really should write a book, Dave. 🙂

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