insecure hallway? (duh!)
Wed, 11 Sep 2013 22:37:07 +0000
2013/09/10
There was mention again last week that some of us might be moving down to the basement, since that room isn't full. (Not that being full is such a good thing, because there's already way too many people in there.) Yesterday boss^3 came by to tell us that 3 of the 6 in this hallway are going to be moved because we are admins (system, network, or database), and a security auditor is worried that passers-by might get to see a password. None of the systems that prompt me for a password display what I'm typing. But I suppose I could be editing a password list when someone came by.
Seems like this ought to be a concern in the basement room too, and anyone there glimpsing a password would have a far better idea how to use it.
If they're really worried about people seeing what's on our screens, they should put us in offices where our screens can face a wall, instead of in a hallway or a serf ward.
I tried a different route across DC today. Instead of following the Potomac south from Georgetown to Arlington Memorial Bridge, today I took K St to Pennsylvania Ave, past the White House, and then E St across to Union Station. This is all city streets, so it isn't as scenic as coming down the Mall from the river, past the Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument, and Smithsonian Museums, but it also doesn't involve a lot of sidewalks clogged with tourists. This route is also shorter (more direct), so even with more traffic signals it didn't take longer. [Yes, some of that was in a previous post. Sorry.]
Remember anniemal's claim that she was going to start cooking dinner again, now that I was coming home at a consistent time? Didn't happen. (Does my coming home at varying times make sense as a reason not to cook dinner? It didn't to me.) My return times are probably going to start varying again when I'm biking, since I won't be tied to the bus schedule. I won't even be tied to coming home before the METRO shuts down.
2013/09/11
11:12
My Kindle was at 25% charge when I left home and when I got to work. (Well, 25% when I left my bedroom; maybe it got another percent or two charging upstairs while I was moving things from my bike panniers to my knapsack, to take Metro.) Playing audio podcasts over Bluetooth takes very little power if everything else is shut down (display, WiFi).
16:00
I'm listening to rather pleasant music from the Magnatune Vivaldi podcast. I did notice that I needed to disable the equalizer, filtering the high frequencies. I'm not sure all of this is Vivaldi. (Not everything in their Bach podcast is Bach.)
[This entry was originally posted as http://syntonic-comma.dreamwidth.org/626725.html on Dreamwidth (where there are
comments).]
2013/09/10
There was mention again last week that some of us might be moving down to the basement, since that room isn't full. (Not that being full is such a good thing, because there's already way too many people in there.) Yesterday boss^3 came by to tell us that 3 of the 6 in this hallway are going to be moved because we are admins (system, network, or database), and a security auditor is worried that passers-by might get to see a password. None of the systems that prompt me for a password display what I'm typing. But I suppose I could be editing a password list when someone came by.
Seems like this ought to be a concern in the basement room too, and anyone there glimpsing a password would have a far better idea how to use it.
If they're really worried about people seeing what's on our screens, they should put us in offices where our screens can face a wall, instead of in a hallway or a serf ward.
I tried a different route across DC today. Instead of following the Potomac south from Georgetown to Arlington Memorial Bridge, today I took K St to Pennsylvania Ave, past the White House, and then E St across to Union Station. This is all city streets, so it isn't as scenic as coming down the Mall from the river, past the Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument, and Smithsonian Museums, but it also doesn't involve a lot of sidewalks clogged with tourists. This route is also shorter (more direct), so even with more traffic signals it didn't take longer. [Yes, some of that was in a previous post. Sorry.]
Remember anniemal's claim that she was going to start cooking dinner again, now that I was coming home at a consistent time? Didn't happen. (Does my coming home at varying times make sense as a reason not to cook dinner? It didn't to me.) My return times are probably going to start varying again when I'm biking, since I won't be tied to the bus schedule. I won't even be tied to coming home before the METRO shuts down.
2013/09/11
11:12
My Kindle was at 25% charge when I left home and when I got to work. (Well, 25% when I left my bedroom; maybe it got another percent or two charging upstairs while I was moving things from my bike panniers to my knapsack, to take Metro.) Playing audio podcasts over Bluetooth takes very little power if everything else is shut down (display, WiFi).
16:00
I'm listening to rather pleasant music from the Magnatune Vivaldi podcast. I did notice that I needed to disable the equalizer, filtering the high frequencies. I'm not sure all of this is Vivaldi. (Not everything in their Bach podcast is Bach.)
[This entry was originally posted as http://syntonic-comma.dreamwidth.org/626725.html on Dreamwidth (where there are
comments).]