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SF Not an Exception In Giving IT Too Much Control

Posted by timothy on from the double-edged-sword dept.

CWmike writes "The city of San Francisco's IT department is certainly not the exception when it comes to allowing just one person to have unfettered rights to make password and configuration changes to networks and enterprise systems. In fact, it's a situation fairly common in many organizations — especially small to medium-size ones, IT managers and others cautioned in the wake of the recent Terry Childs incident."

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  1. God complex by daveywest · · Score: 4, Funny

    What was it they said in the 80's about the most common admin passwords?

    1. Re:God complex by pwnies · · Score: 4, Funny

      "1, 2, 3, 4, 5...the kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage"
      -Spaceballs, 1987.

    2. Re:God complex by oodaloop · · Score: 4, Funny

      That is the combination to my luggage, you insensitive clod!

      --
      Tic-Tac-Toe, Global Thermonuclear War, and relationships all have the same winning move.
  2. Re:Here come the elephants. by Spad · · Score: 4, Funny

    So he's going to change all your passwords *and* run off with your wife?

  3. Not qualified to comment. by Shaitan+Apistos · · Score: 5, Funny

    Whenever I register for a site where my email address is my username, the password I use happens to be the same password that I use for my email account.

    With that in mind, I'm going to go ahead and not express any opinions on security.