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Tech workers - what did your IT Security team do that made your life hell and had no practical benefit? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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One chestnut from my history in lottery game development:

While our security staff was incredibly tight and did a generally good job, oftentimes levels of paranoia were off the charts.

Once they went around hot gluing shut all of the "unnecessary" USB ports in our PCs under the premise of mitigating data theft via thumb drive, while ignoring that we were all Internet-connected and VPNs are a thing, also that every machine had a RW optical drive.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 10 months ago

Here in Portugal the IT guys at the National Health Service recently blocked access to the Medical Doctor's Union website from inside the national health service intranet.

The doctors are currently refusing to work any more overtime than the annual mandatory maximum of 150h so there are all sorts of problems in the national health service at the moment, mainly with hospitals having to close down emergency services to walk-in patients (this being AskLemmy, I'll refrain from diving into the politics of it) so the whole things smells of something more than a mere mistake.

Anyways, this has got to be one of the dumbest abuses of firewalling "dangerous" websites I've seen in a long while.