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Date: Sun Jun 5 20:39:45 2005 From: naverxp at yahoo.com.sg (John Goh) Subject: Off topic rant to my friends lol awesome J.A. Terranson wrote: >You don't have a blogspot account you could have posted this to? > > >On Sun, 5 Jun 2005, Randall M wrote: > > > >>Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2005 10:32:20 -0500 >>From: Randall M <randallm@...mail.com> >>To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk >>Subject: [Full-disclosure] Off topic rant to my friends >> >>Sorry to rant to this list. This list though has the only people on it who >>totally understand this ranting. >> >>Every morning before heading for work I read all my security alert emails >>and website collections about possible Trojans, worms and viruses found. >>Being a faithful worker I do this on the Weekends too. >> >>Once at work I check my web appliances, gateway, Exchange boxes and data >>servers for dat updates and check log files. I spend the first two-three >>hours of my work day doing this every day. >> >>Why do I do this? I do it to protect my company's investment. To ensure that >>the employee's have a job that day. To make sure that customers will have on >>time delivery and so new customers can make orders, etc., etc. >> >>Today I read this article: >>http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1823633,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000614 >> >>For some reason, maybe the coffee, I sat there thinking what the hell am I >>doing all this for? Am I being paid by my company to set up and protect only >>for some future use as a botnet for some organized crime boss!! >> >>I continually spend time, money and research on ways to protect. All of my >>mechanisms I use are actually as helpless as I am!! It's the blind leading >>the blind!! >> >>Then, like a message from God, a memory of a phone call from one of our >>users came to me: >> >>"Hey, I received this email about my account being suspended for security >>reasons, I immediately deleted it but just wanted to let you know". >> >>My small employee awareness program was slowly paying off. A year ago that >>same phone call would have been the "I think I did something bad" type. I >>now realize that my investments and my time have been spent MORE in the >>wrong place. I'm turning that around and heading back to the user. They are >>MY PROACTIVE, PREEMPTIVE protection!! I am no longer depending on the >>Anti-Virus dats or the front-end Appliances or the Gateways because a simple >>"Click" by the user makes them all useless. And it looks as though I can't >>depend on them to keep that "click" opportunity from the user. >> >>Praise be to God for the User! They are powerful! They are trainable! They >>are my BEST defense! >> >>There. I fell better now. >> >> >>thank you >>Randall M >> >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. >>Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html >>Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/ >> >> >> > > > Send instant messages to your online friends http://asia.messenger.yahoo.com
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