Russian Spy Ring Needed Some Serious IT Help

coondoggie writes "The Russian ring charged this week with spying on the United States faced some of the common security problems that plague many companies — misconfigured wireless networks, users writing passwords on slips of paper, and laptop help desk issues that take months to resolve."

Comments

Passwords

[birukun]

Nothing wrong with writing down your long complex passwords..... UNLESS YOU LEAVE IT LAYING AROUND

The complaint read like a spy novel.... A ready-made Bourne script!

Re:Passwords

[timeOday]

They left it lying around... their home. The reason it was compromised was because (apparently) the FBI had a warrant to go in their home, meaning they were already under suspicion because of something else they had done.

Here is my point: if you do something that causes the FBI to monitor your every move and scour your home for clues for over 10 years, it is going to be very hard to keep many secrets, regardless of how you configure your WiFi or whether you try to memorize random 27 character passwords.

they're not spies, they're defectors

[circletimessquare]

they put on the bare minimum effort to convince the kgb they're still on the team (so they don't get any polonium in their tea)

then they dig up their free bags of money in sullivan county, and get on with their average suburban wannabe lives. when the kgb calls, they find a paranoid schizophrenic's blog and rivet their kgb bosses with useless tales of intrigue from the wild west. this spy ring is a joke

if you want to talk about modern life destroying cherished traditions, add this to your list: comfortable suburban living killed james bond