full-disclosure - Re: Computer name should match with your real identity?

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Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:44:15 -0400
From: phil <jabea@...ea.net>
To: taneja.security@...il.com
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Computer name should match with your real
 identity?

>
> Recently got a policy from admin to change your PC name with your "name" +
> organisation name.
>

The funnier with that thread, is that if you tell us that as a normal  
user, then that mean that you are a local admin, and most of user must  
be local admin if they sent that policy to everyone. Kinda a security  
issue just there, the computer name is just not important. who care  
your computer name when netbios traffic stay local on your lan. (ex,  
your co-worker must already know your name, i hope so)

-phil

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