alt Hacker NewsWait, this system is standard SaaS and they can sign in from anywhere, not locked to department devices? That's crazy.
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Is crazy that production databases at places I've worked are often harder to access than this. So much stuff they do with Flock access I would be fired for if I tried it with even vaguely sensitive customer data.
The dichotomy of our current age. On one hand, all knowing super thinking machines are just around the corner. Meanwhile, this. Almost seems like a feature and not a bug.
Honestly I’m not even surprised.
The future is a dystopian mundanity. We expect the protagonists to roleplay their part.
it seems everyone in this thread is focusing on the wrong issue; the problem was not that "sign-in procedures are too lax", it's that these individuals have access, period - or that the system exists in the first place.
I work in the health sector and some systems are locked down much tighter than others despite containing the same kinds of data. It's a bit of a mess.