NSA refused Clinton a secure BlackBerry like Obama, so she used her own

Re:NSA refused Clinton a secure BlackBerry like Obama, so sh... by talmand on Thursday March 17, 2016 @01:38PM (#11306051)

I would hope security's main concern is security, not making people feel happy about their preferences. If a person can show that it is a power-play then those security people are failing at their jobs, which is a different matter. So far I've only seen speculation that this situation was politics.

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Re:NSA refused Clinton a secure BlackBerry like Obama, so sh... by deong on Thursday March 17, 2016 @03:45PM (#11307021)

There are a lot of situations in life that end up having come down to "do you want to be right or do you want solve the problem?"

If you're a security professional who doesn't spend a fair amount of your energy making your users happy, you're failing at your main job of ensuring security, for exactly the reasons on display here. Security doesn't end when you've sent out the memo outlining your policy.

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Re:NSA refused Clinton a secure BlackBerry like Obama, so sh... by awinder on Thursday March 17, 2016 @01:46PM (#11306127)

So back in the real world, no one's job is ever to go "do the best for the best's sake", outside of maybe academia. That's not how people work together, and as you get into more heavily politicized environments, the more true that is.

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Re:NSA refused Clinton a secure BlackBerry like Obama, so sh... by talmand on Friday March 18, 2016 @11:25AM (#11312371)

And we wonder why we see so many companies and government agencies failing at security.

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