It took me a moment to realise what you meant, I wouldn't go that far but from a security perspective I would definitely give employees a full on opsec briefing and say that's a requirement if you want to be using the tech inside the building complete with real life examples of hacks and exploits to drill the damn point in them.
People are stupid beyond belief. No amount of opsec lectures is going to do anything. You ban the device if you want to protect against the threat it represents.
Its not the grunts on the floor that will bring in the phones once they are banned. It will be the middle managers and higherups that are "too important" to let go of their smart phone.
It will be lisa the executive assistant that will have one (newest model iphone of course) that will flaunt the rules because her work is too important.
Data will be stolen and it will all be blamed of some grunt who brought in a phone and got fired 7 months back.
I once had a manager playing with his smart phone in a secure facility with classified info up on my screen and about blew a gasket. He got walked out a few weeks later.
Every halfway competent company already has their employees go through security training and regular refresher courses. But breaches still happen, because the average normie end-user is dumb.
Take a look at the proprietary google shit that gets uploaded to github every now and again. We have but one prayer: "Lord, may our enemies be stupid."
Then she doesn't get her phone or access to the computers, simple, also I'd probably do what the game devs did and have a dog as the HR lady. Joking aside if you put me in a room alone with anyone long enough I'll have them red pilled on tech in no time, I've actually managed to slowly red pill my martial arts teachers who are total normies I've known for decades and it's hilarious.
They're starting to think more like paranoid schizos now because recently they did actually have a think about what if all the phones and tech went dead and how screwed everyone would be and I was delighted they even considered that. They're actually quite based on security to begin with but they've definitely been going down the rabbit hole lately.
Security modeling is more complicated for organizations at that scale. Gotta assess the importance and sensitivity of various trade secrets, and compartmentalize accordingly. Being too secretive can compromise product quality, or the effectiveness of said secrecy policies themselves. "Wages of secrecy" is the term I'm aware of, from ESR's writings on open source software.
At Twitter, any such blanket policy would be absolute overkill, and result in a brain-drain and stiffening of corporate culture. Spacex and Tesla have more pervasive trade secrets, for the right experts to preform cost/risk analysis.
An OpenAI (or any similar cloud product) ban
is what any competent corporation should be doing. For appropriate opsec, a company has to have a general culture of literacy, merit, loyalty, and independent thinking, best summed by the saying "common sense is not so common".
This is quite reasonable. Elon always takes things to the extreme so he'll probably do the full ban or nothing at all. I doubt there's much in the way of secret ingredients at twitter he needs to hide. Doesn't he claim to want to open source everything anyway?
You can even get into trouble for listening in on certain frequencies depending, not enough people are lectured about that kind of shit lol there's a whole list of stuff we should probably write up for people who want to learn.
I'd go further than that, if I were Elon. I would ban smart phones from my companies outright. No wireless available in the office, either.
It took me a moment to realise what you meant, I wouldn't go that far but from a security perspective I would definitely give employees a full on opsec briefing and say that's a requirement if you want to be using the tech inside the building complete with real life examples of hacks and exploits to drill the damn point in them.
People are stupid beyond belief. No amount of opsec lectures is going to do anything. You ban the device if you want to protect against the threat it represents.
Its not the grunts on the floor that will bring in the phones once they are banned. It will be the middle managers and higherups that are "too important" to let go of their smart phone.
It will be lisa the executive assistant that will have one (newest model iphone of course) that will flaunt the rules because her work is too important.
Data will be stolen and it will all be blamed of some grunt who brought in a phone and got fired 7 months back.
[* it will all be blamed on some white guy - as others have the threat of violence to protect them]
I once had a manager playing with his smart phone in a secure facility with classified info up on my screen and about blew a gasket. He got walked out a few weeks later.
And instafire anyone who violates policy, from the CEO on down.
Spearphishing wouldn't work if users were smart. There are still far too many people who think a computer is an appliance.
Every halfway competent company already has their employees go through security training and regular refresher courses. But breaches still happen, because the average normie end-user is dumb.
Yep.
Take a look at the proprietary google shit that gets uploaded to github every now and again. We have but one prayer: "Lord, may our enemies be stupid."
...and He answers!
Tech staff: of course, that's reasonable.
Everyone else: you're nuts!
The factory workers will comply. Some HR lady won't though and screw the whole thing up.
Then she doesn't get her phone or access to the computers, simple, also I'd probably do what the game devs did and have a dog as the HR lady. Joking aside if you put me in a room alone with anyone long enough I'll have them red pilled on tech in no time, I've actually managed to slowly red pill my martial arts teachers who are total normies I've known for decades and it's hilarious.
They're starting to think more like paranoid schizos now because recently they did actually have a think about what if all the phones and tech went dead and how screwed everyone would be and I was delighted they even considered that. They're actually quite based on security to begin with but they've definitely been going down the rabbit hole lately.
It's usually HR making decisions they don't understand.
They just don't care, and they don't take the time ( or are too stupid) to follow through.
Whenever you do something like this, you have to pay a premium to employees, because your competition does not have this requirement.
It’s very hard to hire in software right now.
They did that to themselves.
Security modeling is more complicated for organizations at that scale. Gotta assess the importance and sensitivity of various trade secrets, and compartmentalize accordingly. Being too secretive can compromise product quality, or the effectiveness of said secrecy policies themselves. "Wages of secrecy" is the term I'm aware of, from ESR's writings on open source software.
At Twitter, any such blanket policy would be absolute overkill, and result in a brain-drain and stiffening of corporate culture. Spacex and Tesla have more pervasive trade secrets, for the right experts to preform cost/risk analysis.
An OpenAI (or any similar cloud product) ban is what any competent corporation should be doing. For appropriate opsec, a company has to have a general culture of literacy, merit, loyalty, and independent thinking, best summed by the saying "common sense is not so common".
This is quite reasonable. Elon always takes things to the extreme so he'll probably do the full ban or nothing at all. I doubt there's much in the way of secret ingredients at twitter he needs to hide. Doesn't he claim to want to open source everything anyway?
That's all part of network design.
I worked a job from hell that blocked service intentionally. You couldn't even call 911. They got in a lot of trouble for that.
Just wireless, not cellular. Jamming or blocking cellular is bad juju, gets you involved with the FCC when you don't need to.
I reported them to the Fire Marshall. That man got noticeably angry over the phone.
You can even get into trouble for listening in on certain frequencies depending, not enough people are lectured about that kind of shit lol there's a whole list of stuff we should probably write up for people who want to learn.