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Tech workers - what did your IT Security team do that made your life hell and had no practical benefit? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mozilla products banned by IT because they had a vulnerability in a pervious version.

Rant

It was so bullshit. I had Mozilla Firefox 115.1 installed, and Mozilla put out an advisory, like they do all the fucking time. Fujitsu made it out to be some huge huge unfixed bug the very next day in an email after the advisory was posted and the email chain basically said "yk, we should just remove all Firefox. It's vulnerable so it must be removed."

I wouldn't be mad if they decided that they didn't want to have it be a managed app or that there was something (actually) wrong with it or literally anything else than the fact that they didn't bother actually reading either fucking advisory and decided to nuke something I use daily.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Nah mate, they were completely right. What if you install an older version, and keep using it maliciously? Oh wait, now that you mention, I'm totally sure Edge had a similar problem at one point in the past. So refrain from using Edge, too. Or Explorer. And while we're at it, it's best to stay away from Chrome, as well. That had a similar vulnerability before, I'm sure. So let's dish that, along with Opera, Safari, Maxthon and Netscape Navigator. Just use Lynx, it's super lightweight!

EDIT: on another thought, you should just have stopped working for the above reason. Nothing is safe anymore.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Can't use Lynx either.

https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2010-2810/

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