On 12/20/02 at 2:16 PM, Philip George <pg...@powerplum.com> wrote:

That's called "security." You set a policy and enforce it. If convenience is at all a factor in imposing a security policy, it's as a counter-recommendation.

In other posts....

Terrance Davis commented that "[f]ew things are more insecure than a written down password." That's not really true, because a breach requires physical access. Lock that piece of paper in a strongbox in your house and the odds it'll be compromised are low. The odds it'll be compromised without you realizing it are miniscule.

Finlay Dobbie wonders:

Monitoring would be my guess. If they know who's downloaded something, they can, for example, automatically initiate a mass contact if a potentially dangerous bug is found.

And Philip Moetteli says:

That's overstating things by a large degree.

Efficiency, like convenience, is rarely a factor in setting a security policy.

G (Whose day job recently did miserably in a federal security audit, btw. And it boiled down to the fact that we were too concerned about convenience and efficiency.)