On 1/14/2018 21:39, P. J. Alling wrote:
Also just having a simple confirmation click, to send an alert message, seems like to little. If I were specifying the software, there'd be a requirement to enter your system user name and password, partly to insure that the person had authorization to be sending the message and partly to trace who sent a bogus message in that event. People think more clearly when they're required to identify themselves on the record before making a stupid mistake.
The *small* amount of experience I have with government computer systems makes me believe they already know who it was. The person coming on shift would have to logon to the system before he/she could run the tests.
Nowadays, most government systems require two-factor authentication. You have to insert a CAC (Computer Access Card) into a reader on the keyboard before you can enter your user name and password. Usually the CAC card is some kind of ID badge with a "chip" like that on credit cards.
For a systems test at shift handover, I expect both operators have to be on the system, but there's still a procedure for which operator will run the test and which will authenticate it.
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