On Tue, Apr 24, 2007, Charles Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> This is the hard part. Not every IT person gets to dictate policy to >> their organization. > > I know, but it is their (the I.T. person's) responsiblity to make it > clear in no uncertain terms what the risks are with running an insecure > system - and that the minor inconveniences are nothing when compared to > the possibility of a system becoming compromised. > >> You might be called in to explain why you didn't implement the bad >> idea "correctly" when the shit inevitably hits the fan! > > Assuming you are referring to the use of strong passwords as a 'bad > idea'... (?)
Implementing the bad idea that management forced on you, and then management blaming you when the bad idea causes huge trouble, on the excuse that the idea wasn't bad, you just did a bad job implementing it. Aaron _______________________________________________ DBmail mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail
