tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23529274.post4617652413160214773..comments2023-06-22T03:36:23.556-04:00Comments on Pr3++yG33kyTh1ng: Garrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17923202158010674606noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23529274.post-25948996958596931652007-06-21T19:22:00.000-04:002007-06-21T19:22:00.000-04:00Tess,Your examples actually gave me chills. I've d...Tess,<BR/><BR/>Your examples actually gave me chills. I've done time (as a consultant) in a State I.T. department. No Firefox? They don't know who has what access?<BR/><BR/>OMG,<BR/><BR/>GGarrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17923202158010674606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23529274.post-54403643413353900782007-06-21T19:00:00.000-04:002007-06-21T19:00:00.000-04:00The state of gov't networking is a sad sad thing, ...The state of gov't networking is a sad sad thing, that most days I try not to think about (despite the fact that I'm stuck using said gov't network currently). But other days it rears it's ugly head so high that I can't very well ignore it.<BR/><BR/>Example:<BR/>My IT dept publishes my email address in its entirety in several places on our department website. Now I get about 500 junk mails a day, at least half of which are phishing schemes and viruses.<BR/><BR/>Example:<BR/>My IT dept's solution to the vulnerabilities in IE is not to install a different less hackable <B>free</B> browser, but instead is to disable java and flash.<BR/><BR/>Example:<BR/>My IT dept has no idea who has admin rights on the dept's computers and who doesn't. They sent out emails not too long ago ASKING us if we had admin rights or not.<BR/><BR/>Example: <BR/>We use Windows for everything, because none of the applications that the university has spent millions of dollars on having custom built work on anything else. Our professors use UNIX and Linux and Mac, but have to have a windows machine stashed somewhere just so they can order their research supplies.<BR/><BR/>I love our IT guys to death. They're sweet, and funny, and even fairly attractive. But yes, they need some serious help -- in the form of better training, and better resources.tesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05778330357864185448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23529274.post-67787012041391349132007-06-21T12:02:00.000-04:002007-06-21T12:02:00.000-04:00Well it must be hard when you are the DHS, I mean ...Well it must be hard when you are the DHS, I mean you are what every bored teenager as well as hard core hack test their skill against. They need all the help they can getAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com