Forwarded from: f.johan.beisser <janat_private> On Fri, 23 May 2003, InfoSec News wrote: > But increasingly, it's insiders who know passwords and have access > to a company's computer system who have the ability and, at times, > the desire to commit electronic sabotage. ''You used to send someone > home and take away their keys,'' Burroughs said. ''Now, in > Massachusetts in particular, you have sophisticated employees who > know everything you can know about your computer system.'' what i don't understand is why the employer doesn't take the former employees keys away. lock the account, change the password on it, do something to ensure that person does not have access to the system anymore. it seems irresponsible of the company to not take those simple percausions. -------/ f. johan beisser /--------------------------------------+ The other day I asked former Yankees pitcher Jim Bouton what he thought of our great victory over Iraq, and he said, "Mohammed Ali versus Mr. Rogers." -- kurt vonnegut, 5.9.03 - ISN is currently hosted by Attrition.org To unsubscribe email majordomoat_private with 'unsubscribe isn' in the BODY of the mail.
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