{"id":281,"date":"2005-09-15T14:56:08","date_gmt":"2005-09-15T19:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2005\/09\/15\/281\/"},"modified":"2005-09-15T14:56:08","modified_gmt":"2005-09-15T19:56:08","slug":"281","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2005\/09\/15\/281\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday the grumpy man who came to install new software on the spare workstation at my cube asked me “when was the last time you rebooted this?”<\/p>\n

“Monday,” I said, “I haven’t had a reason to touch it all week.”<\/p>\n

“That means you left it on overnight,” he grumped. “That leaves our network vulnerable. We take a dim view<\/i> of that.”<\/p>\n

Imagine that the italics represent anger. And I was like, yeah, okay, he’s probably right and I should have thought of that. I apologized. A few minutes after he left, I realized:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. That workstation has no Internet connectivity–it’s only on the intranet here, and has to dial out for anything else.\n<\/li>\n
  2. There is no lock on my cubicle.\n<\/li>\n
  3. There is no lock on the computer’s power button.\n<\/li>\n
  4. The username and password are written on a note taped to the monitor,<\/i> which I did not put there. The procedure for dialing out is sitting on a piece of paper right next to that.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    And I was like, how exactly is leaving it on a threat, grumpy man?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Yesterday the grumpy man who came to install new software on the spare workstation at my cube asked me “when was the last time you rebooted this?” “Monday,” I said, “I haven’t had a reason to touch it all week.” “That means you left it on overnight,” he grumped. “That leaves our network vulnerable. We […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}