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clickety_clack 9 days ago

Exactly. For personal authentication, you are at least personally incentivized to do the right things. For corporate auth, people will do whatever it takes to skip any kind of login.

I once knew a guy who refused to let his office computer go to sleep just to avoid having to enter his password to unlock his computer. He was a really senior guy too, so IT bent to allow him do this. What finally made him lock his computer was a colleague sending an email to all staff from his open outlook saying “Hi everyone, it’s my birthday today and I’m disappointed because hardly anyone has come by to wish me happy birthday”. The sheer mortification made him change his ways.

projektfu 9 days ago | parent | next [-]

A culture of harmlessly pranking computers left unlocked goes a long way. ThoughtWorks veterans know what I mean.

tonyhart7 9 days ago | parent | prev [-]

lol this is funny, why he didn't want to sign in more often tho???

clickety_clack 9 days ago | parent | next [-]

He was completely non technical and I guess he figured that IT should be able to work the security system around him.

adam_hn 9 days ago | parent | prev [-]

The most common human trait ever.... laziness