In my experience working inside a Huge Closed Source corporation and dealing with government:
The reason why this is so, is because government agencies have a budget to pay the Huge Closed Source corporation. And for this budget, they expect the drones of H.C.S. (that's me!!) to do everything for them. Repeat this for many, many years (remember, government agencies WANT to use up their IT budget every year, otherwise it gets cut) and so you have folks who are more of PM's (e.g. they kick the butts of the technical / support / consulting people from vendors) than hands-on IT types. and I have to tell you guys: when I do a demo / PoC, even though I know better, in the interests of getting things done, more often than not I do the ff: /sbin/iptables -F /usr/sbin/system-config-securitylevel (and then turn off SELinux and the firewall) I tell myself, the system is behind a system-wide firewall anyway... On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Cocoy Dayao <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 04 13, 09, at 1:15 PM, jan gestre wrote: > >> Even the much acclaimed/maligned CICT employs incompetent people, >> we're able to login to their MySQL database running on Fedora that >> has no root password, imagine that! sighhh >> > > You don't suppose Homer Simpson is running their box? -- Orlando Andico +63.2.976.8659 | +63.920.903.0335 _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
