Re:Facebook-owned sites were down
by samhw on Monday October 04, 2021 @04:52PM
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Yup, it's terrifying how much is ultimately, ultimately dependent on dongles and trust. I used to work at a company with a billion or so in a bank account (obviously a rather special type of account), which was ultimately authorised by three very trusted people who were given dongles.
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What did the dongles do?
Sorry, I should have been clearer - the dongles controlled access to that bank account. It was a bank account for banks to hold funds in. (Not our real capital reserves, but sort of like a current account / checking account for banks.)
I was friends with one of those people, and I remember a major panic one time when 2 out of 3 dongles went missing. I'm not sure if we ever found out whether it was some kind of physical pen test, or an astonishingly well-planned heist which almost succeeded - or else a genuine, wildly improbable accident.