{"id":31533,"date":"2012-11-28T13:37:08","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T20:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/28\/stupid-security-tricks.html"},"modified":"2012-11-28T13:37:08","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T20:37:08","slug":"stupid-security-tricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/28\/stupid-security-tricks.html","title":{"rendered":"Stupid Security Tricks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>\u201cWe are talking about a computer that should not have left the building in the first place. The data would have been secure had the employee followed policy.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p>So NASA&#39;s\u00a0excuse for a major personnel data breach is that an employee didn&#39;t follow the policy properly? \u00a0Well, gosh, that sounds perfectly reasonable, because that sort of thing <i>never<\/i> happens, right?<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images1-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2012\/11\/29\/technology\/29nasa\/29nasa-superJumbo.jpg&#038;container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;rewriteMime=image\/*&#038;refresh=31536000&#038;resize_h=150&#038;resize_w=150&#038;no_expand=1' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/11\/29\/technology\/ex-nasa-scientists-data-fears-come-true.html?partner=rss&#038;emc=rss'>Ex-NASA Scientist\u2019s Data Fears Come True<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA former astronomer at the Jet Propulsion Lab in California sued NASA, claiming its background checks violated his privacy rights. He lost the case, but his claim now has proved true.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/Q4mvigTeAGm' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe are talking about a computer that should not have left the building in the first place. The data would have been secure had the employee followed policy.\u201d So NASA&#39;s\u00a0excuse for a major personnel data breach is that an employee didn&#39;t follow the policy properly? \u00a0Well, gosh, that sounds perfectly reasonable, because that sort of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/28\/stupid-security-tricks.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stupid Security Tricks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3877,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/19\/only_101.html","url_meta":{"origin":31533,"position":0},"title":"Only 101?","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 19-Mar-03 1:44pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's a long but entertaining article on The 101 Dumbest Moments in Business of 2002. 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