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Child tweets gibberish from US nuclear-agency account

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Re: Child tweets gibberish from US nuclear-agency account

#11

Isn't the automatic reaction of a Windows desktop/laptop user to lock their workstation (Ctrl-Alt-Del, Enter, Enter) if they leave for any reason? Edit: that was a great Chaos Monkey to reiterate security hygiene. Or was it a Mini Chaos Monkey? https://netflix.github.io/chaosmonkey/

Seems like no it's not automatic for everyone. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13672231/pelosi-office-trump-s...

Even experienced people have issues with this (bit less after a few rm -rf *)

Re: Child tweets gibberish from US nuclear-agency account

#13
post #8

Since a long time ago it's clear that social media (and bank) accounts need multi signature and 2FA support to allow advanced workflows. Of course it can only be achieved securely with an open standard that allows any combination of these deployed on all platforms (I'm OK with making it payed-only enterprise feature as long as the US military and presindent and maybe Elon Musk has enough money to pay for the feature)…

on the other hand, see the Hawaiian missile alert fiasco where excessive friction prolonged the issues.

Re: Child tweets gibberish from US nuclear-agency account

#15

Isn't the automatic reaction of a Windows desktop/laptop user to lock their workstation (Ctrl-Alt-Del, Enter, Enter) if they leave for any reason? Edit: that was a great Chaos Monkey to reiterate security hygiene. Or was it a Mini Chaos Monkey? https://netflix.github.io/chaosmonkey/

Isn't win+L easier?

I haven't used Windows in a loong time, so I guess it is. ;)

Re: Child tweets gibberish from US nuclear-agency account

#17
post #9

Isn't the automatic reaction of a Windows desktop/laptop user to lock their workstation (Ctrl-Alt-Del, Enter, Enter) if they leave for any reason? Edit: that was a great Chaos Monkey to reiterate security hygiene. Or was it a Mini Chaos Monkey? https://netflix.github.io/chaosmonkey/

>Isn't the automatic reaction of a Windows desktop/laptop user to lock their workstation Having attempted to encourage this as a habit for my users for about a year, and not a single one doing it, I've had to come up with other solutions that takes it out of their hands. (It's not business-critical for us, however we try to encourage good security habits all around). So no, I don't think it is an automatic reaction f…

IIRC, the trick is practical jokes! Change desktop backgrounds, move icons around, leave goofy/giant text Word documents, etc.

Re: Child tweets gibberish from US nuclear-agency account

#19

Isn't the automatic reaction of a Windows desktop/laptop user to lock their workstation (Ctrl-Alt-Del, Enter, Enter) if they leave for any reason? Edit: that was a great Chaos Monkey to reiterate security hygiene. Or was it a Mini Chaos Monkey? https://netflix.github.io/chaosmonkey/

I’m pretty sure I’m the only person in my 200 person office that presses Win+L when leaving my computer
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