Monday 27 October 2008

Spot the obvious mistake here



I really love working in IT, I really do.... however every now and again you get to hear about something which simply boggles your mind...mainly because of the utter stupidity of it....

The company I work for (for now) which shall remain nameless, but suffice to say they have 80,000 staff worldwide, so that narrows things down a bit..... anyway needless to say they decided due to security concerns about laptops going missing and being stolen that they would roll out volume encryption on EVERY laptop over their software update service "Radia"....

The plan was to email the users who's laptops would be encrypted with their passwords in order that they could get back into their trusty laptops ..... (before they rebooted their laptop) ..... however the fatal part of this plan is that you are relying on somebody to read an MIS announcement via email, most of which are usually along the lines of....

"such and such a service/server will be offline between the hours of blah blah"

apparently nobody read the email .....

you know what's coming here don't you ?

Yup..... you guessed it in one fair swoop the MIS team have knocked out the entire stock of laptops for the entire company, oh how I laughed at that one... still am in fact.... :)

someone's head will roll for this gem, of that I'm sure


it's tantamount to sawing off the branch you are sitting on in a very Homer Simpson kind of way....


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