Are you dumber than a government worker?

Platapus · 07-13-11, 07:06 PM

How about that quote without all those annoying numbers

A recent penetration test by the Homeland Security Department highlighted a glaring weakness that keeps security professionals up at night. DHS staff deliberately dropped data disks and USB flash drives in federal agency and contractor parking lots. According to Idappcom, a network security firm, 60 percent of those planted data devices, which could easily hold malicious code, were inserted into company or agency computers.
And if the data device had an official logo, the success rate for it being inserted into an organization's network rose to 90 percent.

There is no device known to mankind that prevents people from being idiots, said Ray Bryant, Idappcom's CEO.

View Poll Results: If you found a flash drive laying on the floor, what would you do?
Insert it into a government or corporate computer system	3	15.79%
Not insert it into a government or corporate computer system	16	84.21%
Voters: 19. You may not vote on this poll

07-13-11, 07:06 PM	#3
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,402 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	How about that quote without all those annoying numbers A recent penetration test by the Homeland Security Department highlighted a glaring weakness that keeps security professionals up at night. DHS staff deliberately dropped data disks and USB flash drives in federal agency and contractor parking lots. According to Idappcom, a network security firm, 60 percent of those planted data devices, which could easily hold malicious code, were inserted into company or agency computers. And if the data device had an official logo, the success rate for it being inserted into an organization's network rose to 90 percent. There is no device known to mankind that prevents people from being idiots, said Ray Bryant, Idappcom's CEO. __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.