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Jerome	2007-12-08 , 21:47
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Originally Posted by Hedgecore

And Jerome... obviously I can form somewhat coherent sentences, shouldn't immediately qualify me to know the obvious - - that security goes beyond malware/viruses? Any CC related call centers operate as a clean room (no paper, pens, recorders, etc.) and there are a host of other physical security concerns. Machines are locked with strict policies through AD to prevent agents from running anything that could conceivably help them scoop numbers/info. I'm not getting into all the details but jeeze... and NO, that machine wasn't the only repository of vital data, but it was a COPY. One which *I* wouldn't feel comfortable having walk out the door with a now non-employee. When you quit your manager's job at McDonalds do they let you keep a copy of the key to the safe?

I am not entirely sure I understand you. If it is operated as a clean room and people can't bring in a pen, how are they going to sneak in a laptop? Really, you confuse me. It is a completely different environment where one cannot connect anything to the network before submitting to a full body search and where one can bring in a laptop full of virii.

All I am saying is: if people can bring in a Nokia to connect to the network, the environment is such that people connecting their home laptop full of virii (or their Linux laptop with a port scanner...) is a definite possibility. In that case, something really sensible (like, e.g. credit card numbers) should not be accessible from that network. So your horror scenario implies gross incompetence from the IT department, and as a consequence I think your horror scenario is not real.

And no: I never had a manager job at McDonald's.

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