Tuesday, 26 January 2010

Security is more important than usability

We have a Dilbert problem at the office today. Someone entered the wrong password to a community machine and was locked out but no one can reset the password except for the Help Desk in India. An emergency call was logged early this morning but they still haven't reset the password -- it's eight hours later. How inefficient is that? It's for security reasons which prompted someone to mention this Dilbert cartoon:

3 comments:

Tim Trent said...

You outsource your important, mission critical internal help to India?

Wow!

Bernd said...

Finally I understand! It's all a devious yet inspired plan by India. Once their support centres - which were only stage one of the plan - have power over all our systems the world is theirs to take...

Tim Trent said...

My God, Bernd, already BT is in their power!