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Discussion on: What are the worst security practices you've ever witnessed?

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Davide de Paolis

leaving the computer unlocked and unattended also drive me nuts, especially when the dev has access to production and aws sdk with broad permissions... depending on teams we had different rules.
What we did the most was changing the desktop/lock screen with something very very ugly and embarrassing (which they had to keep for a whole week). This is a kind of personal intrusion and we did that only in teams where we had lots of confidence with each other, but it clearly shows how much control you can take over someoneΒ΄s computer.

Sometimes we simply applied the cookie/cake/pizza rule via a message on slack from the persons computer "Hi, everybody, I love my team and tomorrow I will bring pizza for everybody!"

Currently with I sometimes do is just opening lockyourscreen.com/ on their browser... quite funny.