Today, Bob Bell gleaned this insight:
> On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 12:17:05PM -0400, Paul Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Which environment would you want to work at. I'd prefer the latter, since
> > they take security seriously, I've worked in the former, and let me tell you,
> > security there was a joke! (Rule of thumb, if the gov't is at related, you bet
> > security is not seriously employed at that site. Raytheon, Lockheed, FBI, CIA,
> > NSA, Los Alamos, all of them have had serious breeches of security.)
>
> Off topic, but I'll defend at least the one Lockheed Martin lab I
> worked at (I realized there are a *bunch*). At LM-ATL we did *not*
> have the root password to our machines. Additionally, there was a
> special lab for secret stuff. You had to have security clearance,
> call security before entering and when exiting, and then use a keycard
> to unlock the door. Additionally, I believe the machines in that lab
> were completely disconnected from the rest of the network.
And if you need that level of security, that's the right way to do it.
Admittedly, not everyone does. But those guys are defense contractors, so
I could buy that they do (though that brings up some other issues with the
government that are completely unrelated to this topic, so I'm not going
to go into them here)...
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