In a message dated: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 12:28:31 EDT
Bob Bell said:
> 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.
Ayup! Raytheon is like that too. But let me ask this, did any machine in th
at secret lab have a tape drive, floppy, or other writeable and removable
media. Did they chack everyone leaving the building for classified materials.
How easy would it have been to leave the building with a floppy disk,
paper-printout, etc.
I saw first hand both in the Navy and at Raytheon how poor security is, and
this is the government whose telling us they know about security!
Read "The Puzzle Palace", it's all about the inside scoop on the NSA, even
their security is a joke in this manner.
You may not have has root, but you had relatively unchecked access to
classified data that you *could* have easily removed from the premises.
(Note: I'm not saying every facility has to have cavity searches before
entering or leaving, just merely pointing out that, as Ben stated earlier,
restricting root access is not the end-all to security).
--
Seeya,
Paul
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Niall Kavanagh, 10 April, 2000
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