One chestnut from my history in lottery game development:

While our security staff was incredibly tight and did a generally good job, oftentimes levels of paranoia were off the charts.

Once they went around hot gluing shut all of the “unnecessary” USB ports in our PCs under the premise of mitigating data theft via thumb drive, while ignoring that we were all Internet-connected and VPNs are a thing, also that every machine had a RW optical drive.

  • residentmarchant@lemmy.worldEnglish
    53·
    2 years ago

    Why keylog and pick up 10k random characters to sift through when the password they want is written down for them?

    • Rooty@lemmy.world
      51·
      2 years ago

      Again, how is the attacker going to see a piece of paper that is stuck to the side of the screen? This rule makes sense in high traffic areas, but in a private persons home? The attacker would also need to be a burglar.

      • Krudler@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        It seems that some people are having trouble following the conversation and a basic stream of topical logic.

        The initial premise was that somebody could see your passwords by pwning your machine… And using that to… Turn on webcam so they could steal your password so they could… pwn your machine?

        Lol