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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. 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?"
    "...."