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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] NobodyElse 58 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I did that because 2 minute screen lock plus crazy long password requirements made working hell. The alternative was going to be an arduino usb hid device that typed the password when a button was pressed.

Having unrealistic, bad security rules are counterproductive.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 months ago (1 children)

2 minute screen lock

Are you fucking kidding me? That's ridiculous.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago

My prior job logged everyone (employees and customers alike) out of the portal after 5 min of inactivity, but uploads to the site often took much longer than that, to say nothing of checking things over, so half the support contacts we got were whining about the timeout, and the only thing I had to say to the people complaining was “yeah man, we have the timeout too, and have to use the site on and off all day, year round, not just for three days a year.. I totally agree with you, it doesn’t help, but even our dummy data on test accounts is subject to those rules, so I can’t help you..”

Instead, I learned the site inside and out by memory (I built the knowledge bases for everything, as a result) and sent the security team every article I could find about how short timeouts were bad for SaaS security because they make people use less secure passwords and skip mfa.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

I'm a little surprised that I've never seen bluetooth pressure switches in office chairs to lock workstations when the employee stands up.

Because clearly you need more meddling in your workflow for the sake of security theater.

[–] Galapagon 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Pressure plate? Obviously it should be a chair mounted butt plug that locks the screen when removed from anus.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

And it gives you electric shocks when you're unproductive. What is productive or not is judged by an AI that us entirely inadequate for the task, so everybody gets random shocks.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

And at some point you start enjoying them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Unless managent has approved your butt leaving the seat...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Or a smartcard based login where you could just remove the card

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I was at a company once where they had this. They used a pin for the pc and the smartcard was used everywhere.. opening doors to get to the toilet, paying for lunch.

Employees said it was excellent, as you could not really forget it cause corridor separators had badge locks.. so you can't get anywhere without the card. and once you pull it from the key oards built in reader, the pc locked.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

Yeah, I worked in a secure facility that did this and it felt both secure and reasonable. I just kept my card on a lanyard to my belt so I literally couldn't walk away without pulling the card.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I remember surge strips that had infrared sensors to see if there was someone at the desk. Easy way to power off the old CRT monitors and save energy if away.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

One job I had also had a 2min lockout. My solution was to let a really long YT video play in fullscreen when I left the laptop. That prevented the lockout.

Thanks to whoever uploaded a 10h loop of the Nyan cat song, you are a hero.

[–] fernlike3923 2 points 3 months ago

I think passphrases would work great in that case.