12 Jun
2009
12 Jun
'09
8:22 a.m.
Yes, but nobody will care until the law shows up or we get hacked, in
which case things will still be my fault. He who bitches loudest gets
what he wants, and I am outnumbered. (We run a data warehouse for
government/corporate contractors to locate certified minority owned
subcontractors for bidding disclosure compliance purposes.)
To make things a bit more on-topic, for the first two weeks of our
operations our DNS server was a MicroVAX standing in for a machine
that was destroyed in shipping.
On Jun 12, 2009, at 9:34 AM, "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com>
wrote:
At 6:17 PM -0500 6/11/09, Daniel Seagraves wrote:
reality however, I am most likely giving up my
password expiration
policy. The users are complaining to the owner about having to
change their password every 60 days, and the owner has told me if
they continue to complain the policy will be abolished. The burden
is on me to abolish the policy myself instead of having him force
it. That makes it look like I "realized the legitimacy of the user
need" instead of simply being forced to give up.)
Depending on what this business does and what regulations it has to
follow, this could be a serious issue.
Zane
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