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[jecook]

Heh. We had a minor panic situation this morning that might have involved us invoking the federal wiretap laws.

Against one of our own employees.

who has a tendancy to meddle in our affairs when said person feels that we are not doing something fast enough for their liking.

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[teraflops.livejournal.com]

What's to stop him from cracking the local admin PW and giving himself access again? I don't think it's realistically possible to keep a user from gaining local admin, especially on a machine they can pick up and take home to tinker with.

[kalium.livejournal.com]

Order of the Golden Star?

[teraflops.livejournal.com]

I don't get the reference.

[kalium.livejournal.com]

http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/S/star-out.html

[triss.livejournal.com]

There's a more significant law for this situation tho - the 10-finger rule.

If he's got 10-finger access to the system, he can get local admin, nothing anyone can do about it if he's determined enough. Passworded BIOS can make it a nuisance, tho.

[jecook]

Because we can fire his ass, no matter how far up the chain, if he does it. We take security breaches very seriously.

[teraflops.livejournal.com]

That works :-)