I just ask them for the password and userid and they give them to me
We had frequent and mandatory training, and then anonymous audits that were unscheduled.
One of my favorite things to do was to leave a scuffed up USB drive in the parking lot that calls home with the autorun.inf file. Whoever inserts it into their computer gets fired or more training.
i bet some inserted it
Of course they did.
I'd sometimes leave a CD on someone's desk, I'd sometimes print the said CD to look like a music CD, and shit like that.
We had some very, very valuable data. Security was not just a primary focus, it was a constant focus. It's not even a focus, it's an ingrained business principle.
Imagine what all the individual sales and foot-traffic data for every single Walmart is worth to their competition. Imagine what a military base's vehicular traffic patterns are worth to a foreign government. It may not seem like much, but that shit has some serious value. Back then it'd be a bit harder, but today that'd fit on an external hard drive and be able to walk out the door in one trip.
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