In
<of863fa9ec.b979e2c9-on862578be.006d5f36-862578be.006e2...@assurant.com>,
on 06/29/2011
at 03:03 PM, Darth Keller <[email protected]> said:
>""Bloomberg reports that The US Department of Homeland recently ran a
>test on government employees to see how easy it was for hackers to
>gain access to computer systems, without the need for direct network
>access. Computer disks and USB sticks were dropped in parking lots
>of government buildings and private contractors, and 60% of the
>people who picked them up plugged the devices into office computers.
>And if the drive or CD had an official logo on it, 90% were
>installed.""
A large share of the blame goes to the monopoly software vendor that
wrote code to automatically execute files on removable media.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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