Re: Worker vengeance makes its way online

[InfoSec News <isn () c4i org>]

Forwarded from: f.johan.beisser <jan () caustic org>

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



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