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Fnord666
on Thursday May 16 2019, @09:43AM
from the wait-till-they-add-the-shock-feature dept.
from the wait-till-they-add-the-shock-feature dept.
Technology used in fitness trackers could hold the key to reducing cyber attacks, researchers say.
The team, from the University of Bath and Goldsmiths, University of London, are investigating a device that plugs into a computer.
It would signal when action – such as changing a password or updating anti-virus software – is needed with sound, lights and vibration.
Future uses could include alerts when an employee is using a work computer for activities such as social media or shopping
Source: https://techerati.com/news-hub/fitbit-cybersecurity-usb-uk/
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 16 2019, @10:06AM (4 children)
Yep, that always works. At our office, you see half the staff dicking around with their phones all day checking Twitbook, pinterest, and the local online fashion outlet. Work computers, too locked down, and the work network has too many sites blocked. So people just use their phones. On their work machines they still click on phishing emails and type their work password into external sites. But, hey, at least they're not using Fuckbook or feeBay on their work machine.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Thexalon on Thursday May 16 2019, @10:40AM (2 children)
Obviously, the reason that your people are dicking around rather than getting work done is because you haven't been draconian enough. It has absolutely nothing to do with your project plan being stupid, the work being unnecessary, management failing to reward effort, or the brain rest actually improving productivity.
At least, that's how many management teams I've encountered seem to think.
"Think of how stupid the average person is. Then realize half of 'em are stupider than that." - George Carlin
(Score: 4, Funny) by Sourcery42 on Thursday May 16 2019, @12:22PM (1 child)
The beatings will continue until morale improves
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 16 2019, @07:11PM
Yes.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 16 2019, @04:54PM
At the office, I tunnel to my seedbox, which I use as a web proxy.
The last-straw was when I found a site blocked for a major chip supplier that the company does business with, and I needed to download product datasheets.
I've changed the admin (root) password on my machine, so that I.T. cannot login, nor install the typical backup, antivirus, etc., crapware. They are incompetent enough not to be able to figure-out how to bypass that, even with physical access /facepalm
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Thursday May 16 2019, @11:06AM
Thief! Stealing company time!
https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D9ZrAYxWPN6c [youtube.com]
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 16 2019, @11:23AM
I wonder how it would know when changing a password is needed without being a gaping security flaw. Or is this like the feature that locks you out of your account forever if you try to log in from abroad despite the accurate login and password because it's "suspicious" and will no unlock unless you give them your phone number?
Or maybe it's just like the emails forcing you to change the password every month so it ends up being less and less inventive because you simply can't remember them.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 16 2019, @01:02PM (2 children)
When I was a child (DECADES ago), personal computers were new.
I thought computers were fascinating because they might allow you to do things you couldn't do before or hadn't yet been imagined.
I see now that most of what computers do is just control access of information and spy on people. This is not an improvement. This is automated authoritarianism.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday May 16 2019, @02:30PM
You're holding it wrong.
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(Score: 2) by Bot on Thursday May 16 2019, @05:31PM
When I was 20ish, packet networks, MUDs and the internet got to the general public. Considering the potential disruption the revolution could cause in many aspects of life, I predicted it would be vehemently opposed by the incumbents. Little did I know that the incumbents had already been bent on destroying society for many decades before that.
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(Score: 1) by WeekendMonkey on Thursday May 16 2019, @04:05PM
Just arrived in the mail today, your new "cyber diligence" USB device. Just plug in and click OK when prompted to complete the setup process. Of course, you will need to enable autorun first...
(Score: 2) by Bot on Thursday May 16 2019, @05:25PM
More distraction! You'll need another core to deal with this stuff soon, meatbags.
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(Score: 1) by zzarko on Thursday May 16 2019, @07:44PM
... do I need windows to use this? If yes, then it can monitor me all day long, while I additionally disable its USB port... (no windows - no problem :) )
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