By Will Sturgeon
Published: Tuesday 21 February 2006
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Name
Graham Coles
Location
UK
Occupation
Software Engineer
Comment
How can Chapman exonerate IT companies after pointing out that most of them, in addition to not securing their workstations, give no training to their staff on how to use them securely?
As regards Chapmans comments, common sense dictates that you should be able to listen to a CD on a computer safely as it is just supposed to contain benign digital audio, yet I wonder how many corporate workstations got infected with Sony's rootkit?
Where is the common sense in installing a rootkit to play a music CD, or having to install additional unspecified software to be allowed to watch a DVD? Where is the common sense in microsoft providing documentation in executable file format (e.g. Kerberos extensions).
People have been brought up with this level of stupidity from companies that behave like this, so they can't be entirely to blame. As far as companies go, where is the common sense in letting non-technical users run windows with effective administrator privileges?
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