Posts by Sacha
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OnPoint: MSD's Leaky Servers, in reply to Deborah,
a need for IT savvy people to be much more aware of the jargon they use, and the assumptions they make about how much other people do, or don't, know about computers.
Totally agree with you there - as do all the other recovering technical writers in this community, I'd imagine. :)
The same issues apply to public involvement in our own security and informed consent as our details go online. Making sure that this stuff is understandable for everyone has to be a bigger priority than it has been.
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OnPoint: MSD's Leaky Servers, in reply to Deborah,
Really, please do me the courtesy of taking my word for it when I say that I really don’t understand the inner workings of computers.
Your situation is being used to suppoort a politicised argument that no one could have known - that it was generically 'not easy'. That is just rubbish.
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OnPoint: MSD's Leaky Servers, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
it really helps to keep in mind that what’s obvious or “easy” for you might not be for everyone in the room
And vice versa, sir. As I noted, some of us have more than just our personal experience to draw on about general expertise levels at things like opening files.
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OnPoint: MSD's Leaky Servers, in reply to Joe Wylie,
this breach seems to make Keith's revelations all the more remarkable
Crikey. Maybe that was related to the work a year ago that Brereton mentioned?
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OnPoint: MSD's Leaky Servers, in reply to jacqui scott,
I suggest contact the Privacy Commissioner right away - http://privacy.org.nz/contact-us/
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OnPoint: MSD's Leaky Servers, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Key is simply wrong. It *was* easy, as others have described.
Please trust those here who do actually know what we're talking about - including experience teaching introductory Windows courses to people who have never used a computer before.
That doesn't mean every member of the public could do what Keith did. You do need to know more to realise the implications - but that's why organisations spend some of their budgets hiring experts, managers and governors to oversee them.
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OnPoint: MSD's Leaky Servers, in reply to Russell Brown,
Kay Brereton of the Beneficiaries Advocacy Federation says she told MSD about the flaws in the kiosks a year ago
Here she is on Radio NZ this morning (2 mins, listening options).
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OnPoint: MSD's Leaky Servers, in reply to stuartm,
With greater information sharing across government agencies, it's quite a useful reminder of possible implications, surely?
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OnPoint: MSD's Leaky Servers, in reply to stuartm,
It seems more likely to me that the accounts used by the kiosk computers were incorrectly configured which gave them way more rights than they needed.
That's possible too, yes.
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OnPoint: MSD's Leaky Servers, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Well, he’s not wrong but completely misses the point. I couldn’t do what Keith did
Kiosk is not the main problem in any case. Seems staff using MSD's network in their day-to-day job seem to have global access. Easily.