{"id":12638,"date":"2018-06-21T02:30:07","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T10:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2018\/06\/21\/news-6406\/"},"modified":"2018-06-21T02:30:07","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T10:30:07","slug":"news-6406","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2018\/06\/21\/news-6406\/","title":{"rendered":"Throwback Thursday: Get the picture?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 03:00:00 -0700<\/strong><\/p>\n

IT director pilot fish at a daily newspaper is reworking the company’s entire network. Why? “There is no security,” sighs fish. “None, with about 90 users in a peer-to-peer Mac and PC environment.”<\/p>\n

One night he gets a call from an editor: One of the applications isn’t working. It’s the one that lets a reporter find a photo on a wire service’s website and save it to a folder. The app then moves the folder to a holding folder on another machine, where yet another machine can grab it and put it into the newspaper’s production process.<\/p>\n

It takes a couple hours of troubleshooting, but fish tracks down the problem. That holding folder? The one that’s actually named “Do not touch, do not delete”?<\/p>\n

It’s gone.<\/p>\n

“The removal of this file can severely hinder our product — can you imagine a newspaper without pictures?” fish says. “I re-created it, and everything worked fine.<\/p>\n

“Assuming that we had a security breach or someone was really stupid, I began publicizing this outage through management.”<\/p>\n

Ultimately, that’s one of the things that convinces management to let fish beef up security. He gets approval for a new server to use Active Directory and begins locking down the network.<\/p>\n

A few weeks later, fish is explaining to a photographer why the server is needed. And as they talk, it slowly dawns on the photog that he’s already part of the solution — by being part of the problem.<\/p>\n

“In the conversation, he revealed that he deleted the “Do not touch, do not delete” file because it was empty and was just taking space,” groans fish.<\/p>\n

“Thus the answer: We didn’t have a security breach. Someone was just really stupid.”<\/p>\n

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Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 03:00:00 -0700<\/strong><\/p>\n

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IT director pilot fish at a daily newspaper is reworking the company’s entire network. Why? “There is no security,” sighs fish. “None, with about 90 users in a peer-to-peer Mac and PC environment.”<\/p>\n

One night he gets a call from an editor: One of the applications isn’t working. It’s the one that lets a reporter find a photo on a wire service’s website and save it to a folder. The app then moves the folder to a holding folder on another machine, where yet another machine can grab it and put it into the newspaper’s production process.<\/p>\n

It takes a couple hours of troubleshooting, but fish tracks down the problem. That holding folder? The one that’s actually named “Do not touch, do not delete”?<\/p>\n

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