full-disclosure - A rather newbie question

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Message-ID: <200405031234.59744.dlhane@sbcglobal.net>
From: dlhane at sbcglobal.net (David Hane)
Subject: A rather newbie question

Harlan,

On Monday 03 May 2004 10:31, Harlan Carvey wrote:
> Ethan,
>
> > I just wanted to point out that this is probably the
> > no.1 security fallacy I hear among my endlusers.
>
> Having done vulnerability assessments for a long time,
> one of the biggest issues I run up against is admins
> who refer to users as "lusers".  Funny joke, yeah, but
> a lack of discretion points to an underlying attitude,
> which can be a real problem.

While I think you have a point I also think Ethan has one too. It is important 
to remember that users are generally clueless and/or unconcerned with 
security. Of course I'm grossly generalizing but I think you get my point. 
Keeping in mind that the weakest link can be the average user is always a 
good idea. And who would argue with idiot proofing any system, computer or 
otherwise?

So I think a little harmless joking amongst ourselves isn't necessarily all 
bad :-) After all, how many ID10T errors have you fixed in the last week ;-P

Dave