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Cutting Security To Cut Costs?

Posted by Cliff on from the silver-bullets-and-severed-toes dept.

just currious asks: "I work for a large company (10,000+ pc's) who recently out sourced the help desk. After looking at about a year's worth of data we find the 30% to 50% of the calls to the helpdesk are password related (password resets, password changes, etc.) this is alot of calls (at 20+ dollars a pop). Now they want to reduce cost by cutting security, since if you don't have a password, you can't forget it. So here's what upper management wants to do: remove the security from all of our Windows 2000 machines. Has anybody else seen security cut just to save money?"

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  1. In order to assist you... by drfrank · · Score: 5, Funny

    We need to first know where you work. Actually, just the IPs will be fine.

  2. But... by HRbnjR · · Score: 3, Funny

    I thought you said they were cutting security?

    Sounds to me like your Windows boxes will be about as secure as ever :-)

  3. A Better Solution by Tuxinatorium · · Score: 3, Funny

    Fire the morons who forget their password or set it to "QWERTY" so they won't forget. :)

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  4. BOIH by jsse · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now they want to reduce cost by cutting security, since if you don't have a password, you can't forget it.

    You obviously not a BOIH(Bastard Operator In Hell):

    "I lost my password."
    "You've no password."
    "What do you mean by no password? What's that big f%#*ing word on the screen saying 'Password'?"
    "Just press Enter."
    "small cap or all cap?"
    "...."

  5. Yes Sir right away! by jsse · · Score: 2, Funny

    So here's what upper management wants to do: remove the security from all of our Windows 2000 machines.

    No sweat! *pause 3 sec.* It's being done!

    *thank God not being asked to remove security holes*

  6. Re:BOIH - BO*F*H by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    That applause you hear has nothing to do with the whooshing noise you just heard go by overhead.

  7. Re:BOIH - BO*F*H by jsse · · Score: 2, Funny

    You don't get it. Whether you are BOFH or BOIH is depending on whether you make people suffering or people make you suffering. :)

  8. Sadly enough... by iq+in+binary · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes, I have.

    Moronically, the highschool I was currently attending. I was the "Assistant Admin" (i WAS the admin, don't let the name fool you).

    My principal started getting sick and tired of her front desk people having all of their time wasted by students asking their student numbers (also their password).

    She came to me saying to take all passwords off, period. The only exception, mine.

    It took 400 flunking students getting straight A report cards magically to set her straight.

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  9. I must be bored... by PerryMason · · Score: 3, Funny

    I was reading a few posts in this thread and started thinking "Hmmm, so he works for a BIG company. There might be some chance such a person would be googleable." So I looked at the email of the poster, griffis@mailexcite.com and google away at griffis.

    The first few pages showed nothing, but then BINGO!!
    http://www.nab.org/conventions/includes/p articipan tbio.asp?id=10985.

    Finally MS is implementing the security policy they always wanted. ;)

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  10. that's absolutely... by Morphine007 · · Score: 2, Funny

    fantastic... probably the best idea I've ever heard... . ..say... where do you work? :)

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