Yes, some (most?) BOFHs are idiots. Well... and at least this essay at freshmeat "The Egoless Admin" proves that I'm not alone with this opinion.
Well, but you are right: Additionally to the typical BOFH - who is far too lazzy to setup encryption - there also is a group clueless baby-admins - who simply don't know that there is something like encryption and that crackers and worms are more than cock-and-bull stories...
LOL... The leakage of 802.11... Hey, if you call yourself "Nerd" you can't blame 802.11 for the idiotism of BOFHs neither knowing about the built-in encryption features of 802.11 nor about the possibility to setup IPSec (in eNTe it requires nothing but a mouse-click, on Kinderunix you have to apply some patches...).
And what's about the obvious leakage of this optical thing? "Hey dude, would you go one step beside, please? You interrupt the line of sight beween my workstation and the hub..."
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intersection(set_of_clueless_baby_admins, BOFH) := empty.
Hmm... Didn't my clumsy English express this? Anyway:
context := WORLD - IT
(EXISTS bofh (is_naive(context, bofh) OR is_clueless(context, bofh))) != FALSUM
Well, but you are right: Additionally to the typical BOFH - who is far too lazzy to setup encryption - there also is a group clueless baby-admins - who simply don't know that there is something like encryption and that crackers and worms are more than cock-and-bull stories...
And what's about the obvious leakage of this optical thing? "Hey dude, would you go one step beside, please? You interrupt the line of sight beween my workstation and the hub..."