Child tweets gibberish from US nuclear-agency account

airhead969 wrote: post #2

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/

That's an old-school shortcut! Windows+L is faster, fwiw.

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h » Tue, Mar 30, 2021, 5:12 PM UTC

airhead969 wrote: post #2

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?

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Post by xiphias2 » Tue, Mar 30, 2021, 5:13 PM UTC

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).

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Post by ziddoap » Tue, Mar 30, 2021, 5:14 PM UTC

airhead969 wrote: post #2

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 for the majority of people. Although, this is government - so I would have expected a bit more rigor. Perhaps working in a home environment contributed to relaxing of security habits.

Side note: Windows + L was a bit easier to remember than Ctrl+Alt+Del -> Enter -> Enter for the users who made good faith efforts at making it a habit

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Post by hprotagonist » Tue, Mar 30, 2021, 5:14 PM UTC

http://catb.org/jargon/html/M/molly-guard.html