Here are some fun tales of computer security that have been posted on the Mac OS X Server mailing list recently:
“I was doing an audit once for this company and I asked them the question, ”What do you feel is your most secure system?“ The guy that I was interviewing quickly said, ”that is easy, the one over there,“ as he pointed to a server that was dismantled and lacking a drive or RAM. I had another client that I was auditing that had this pair of wire snips in a glass case mounted directly over their primary NAP with a sign that read ”In Case Of Hack Break Glass and Cut Red Wire!“”
“This was back in the days when computers had keyboards which were part of the computer box: you couldn't just unplug the keyboard and plug another one in. The client pointed to an Apple II and said 'The password has a 'y' in it. The 'y' key on that keyboard is broken.'”
“There was a study done a couple of years ago by the DoD that actually assessed how easy it would be to get information out of users by bribery and the results were interesting. The least amount of work was a Mountain Dew and hot dog with the most being $10,000.”
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