guards was: PDP1 3529

(Larry Elmore) writes:

Unfortunately, to your typical PHB the purpose of "security measures" is to give them the warm fuzzies, not to provide any real security. For such people, the only measure of security is how much it inconveniences legitimate users, since they wouldn't recognize a black hat if one came up and bit them. (And even then they probably wouldn't have a clue as to what kind of person would break in.)

At a PPOE someone once thought that security would be enhanced by requiring all staff entering the building after hours do so by a single door, rather than whichever of the four doors was closest to their workplace. This meant that I would have to walk the length of the building to the selected door, then come all the way back inside the building. (When exiting I could just use a fire door, so I parked my car in the usual place.) At least the path inside the building was unencumbered by anything but distance, since there were no locked doors inside. I didn't even try to ask anyone just what they were trying to accomplish by funneling all traffic through one inconvenient door, since once inside you had the run of the building anyway.

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