SF Not an Exception In Giving IT Too Much Control 245
CWmike writes "The city of San Francisco's IT department is certainly not the exception when it comes to allowing just one person to have unfettered rights to make password and configuration changes to networks and enterprise systems. In fact, it's a situation fairly common in many organizations — especially small to medium-size ones, IT managers and others cautioned in the wake of the recent Terry Childs incident."
God complex (Score:5, Funny)
Just waterboard the guy... (Score:4, Funny)
I mean, really. What do we have now? The guy loses control, flips out, locks everyone out of the system, they are down for who knows how long as they bring in crackers and consultants and what not, and the guy goes to jail.
But...
If you just waterboard the guy, until he coughs up the password, the system's not down for really any longer than it takes a Windows Update to screw everything up, so you can just let the guy who locked you out walk, instead of putting him in jail or prison for who knows how long.
Waterboard in this case would be simpler, safer, and better for everyone.
Re:God complex (Score:5, Funny)
-Spaceballs, 1987.
Re:God complex (Score:5, Funny)
Opportunity for router vendors (Score:4, Funny)
Cisco should start selling Childs-proof routers! *rimshot*
Re:It will happen again, and continue to happen. (Score:2, Funny)
Singularity ftw.
Re:Here come the elephants. (Score:5, Funny)
So he's going to change all your passwords *and* run off with your wife?
Not qualified to comment. (Score:5, Funny)
Whenever I register for a site where my email address is my username, the password I use happens to be the same password that I use for my email account.
With that in mind, I'm going to go ahead and not express any opinions on security.
Re:This is silly (Score:1, Funny)
is that rocking-horse porn or rocking horse-porn?
Failure is not an option (Score:3, Funny)
I'm getting to the point in my network that I'm the only single point of failure.
I'm sorry, Dave, I can't let you do that.
--Your Cisco HAL 9000 Router