| Speaking of cops... |
by imperito |
2006-03-24 09:54:08 |
A friend and I were having an interesting discussion the other day about police and authentication.
Basically, how much do you think a cop should have to do, to be considered a cop, as opposed to joe random passerby. From a network / computer systems security perspective, its laughable that someone just walks up to you, presents some more or less publically available authentication tokens, and is granted rather severe privilege escalation. But it happens. And people do apparently get in bad situations because of it.
If a person walked up to your front door and said they were police, would you let them in? Should you? Would you want your computer to behave the same way if s/police/root/?
Just food for thought. |
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ah, but computer security is a serious business | by shminux | 2006-03-24 09:56:29 |
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If they walked up to my door, I would ask to see | by merlin | 2006-03-24 09:57:11 |
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but again, thats nothing anyone can't create. | by imperito | 2006-03-24 10:05:54 |
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If they are a real cop, they should have no | by merlin | 2006-03-24 10:07:06 |
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Not right away | by DesertRat66 | 2006-03-24 10:01:48 |
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There was an article in the paper today about | by merlin | 2006-03-24 10:05:54 |
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What area? Got a link? | by shorty82 | 2006-03-24 10:09:34 |
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And thats even worse. | by imperito | 2006-03-24 10:10:10 |
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At least Cell Phones give you more | by lheggland | 2006-03-24 10:13:42 |
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It was actually that kind of case | by imperito | 2006-03-24 10:14:27 |
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The canned advice is | by DesertRat66 | 2006-03-24 10:15:37 |
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I've heard that... | by imperito | 2006-03-24 10:24:54 |
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Usually you do both (n/t) | by DesertRat66 | 2006-03-24 10:31:17 |
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I would turn on my hazards | by hyzenthlay | 2006-03-24 10:48:25 |
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All cell phones will *always* call 911 even | by classic_jon | 2006-03-24 12:11:22 |
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Not *precisely* true. | by sofaspud | 2006-03-24 17:04:05 |
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and also... | by imperito | 2006-03-24 17:22:01 |
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Along those lines I have a funny story | by classic_jon | 2006-03-24 12:25:55 |
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That's priceless!! I need to link that! | by SouthpawPL | 2006-03-24 13:04:46 |
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:-D I laugh every time he tells that story (n/t) | by classic_jon | 2006-03-24 13:13:24 |
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I have been in a Geo doing 130 down the highway. | by joecrouse | 2006-03-24 17:25:39 |
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I was involved with a Secret service investigation | by basher20 | 2006-03-24 10:17:20 |
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One has to be careful. | by shorty82 | 2006-03-24 10:21:30 |
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Most caught speeding would rather not aggrevate | by shminux | 2006-03-24 10:25:13 |
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There is a name for that | by DesertRat66 | 2006-03-24 10:57:01 |
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If the car was unmarked... | by jdelphiki | 2006-03-24 15:02:47 |
