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moritzwarhiertoday at 5:28 PM1 replyview on HN

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Urgency.

Emotions.

It's all there, and high-stakes environments with no proper protocol are most vulnerable.

Source: used to work part-time in IT support at a hospital, by now 10+ years ago, so it was routinely requested to circumvent regulations and security protocols, even medical ones (cough Windows in ICU monitors and other medical "kiosk" PCs that should absolutely not run Windows)


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Krasnoltoday at 5:53 PM

I love those admin passwords which a tech will give you at some point because he doesn't want to do the work himself. If they even have passwords...

Unfortunately Siemens woke up.

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