Quite right too, and IMO it is not completely off topic. I might point out that (certainly on windows platforms) teaching users the F1 key is also a damn good start, as the modern documentation is now quite mature.
On 6/5/05, Randall M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry to rant to this list. This list though has the only people on it who > totally understand this ranting. > > Every morning before heading for work I read all my security alert emails > and website collections about possible Trojans, worms and viruses found. > Being a faithful worker I do this on the Weekends too. > > Once at work I check my web appliances, gateway, Exchange boxes and data > servers for dat updates and check log files. I spend the first two-three > hours of my work day doing this every day. > > Why do I do this? I do it to protect my company's investment. To ensure that > the employee's have a job that day. To make sure that customers will have on > time delivery and so new customers can make orders, etc., etc. > > Today I read this article: > http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1823633,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000614 > > For some reason, maybe the coffee, I sat there thinking what the hell am I > doing all this for? Am I being paid by my company to set up and protect only > for some future use as a botnet for some organized crime boss!! > > I continually spend time, money and research on ways to protect. All of my > mechanisms I use are actually as helpless as I am!! It's the blind leading > the blind!! > > Then, like a message from God, a memory of a phone call from one of our > users came to me: > > "Hey, I received this email about my account being suspended for security > reasons, I immediately deleted it but just wanted to let you know". > > My small employee awareness program was slowly paying off. A year ago that > same phone call would have been the "I think I did something bad" type. I > now realize that my investments and my time have been spent MORE in the > wrong place. I'm turning that around and heading back to the user. They are > MY PROACTIVE, PREEMPTIVE protection!! I am no longer depending on the > Anti-Virus dats or the front-end Appliances or the Gateways because a simple > "Click" by the user makes them all useless. And it looks as though I can't > depend on them to keep that "click" opportunity from the user. > > Praise be to God for the User! They are powerful! They are trainable! They > are my BEST defense! > > There. I fell better now. > > > thank you > Randall M > > > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html > Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/ > _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
