Re: News at 9....
I used to work for a government agency where half of the staff were Navy (or ex-Navy). It was in this job where I was exposed to a term called "JFID" (just f**king do it). The term is never used in written form but always, every time, used in un-recorded meeting(s) or under-the-table project kick-offs.
Anyway, back in 2005 and I wanted to explore WiFi in the corporate environment. The response from the senior network engineer was "no" because WPA2, then, was perceived to be "not secure". (Back then, WPA2 was so new, everything was "guilty until proven otherwise".)
Anyway, that government agency had a 16 story corporate office. Back then xDSL was still brand new then. Combine xDSL with WiFi and what do you get? Uh-huh. Exactly.
From the ground floor and all the way to the top, all business units (big or small) have, a minimum, one xDSL modem with WiFi. Even the IT Security Team had two (that I am aware of). Bigger business units have more WiFi modems.
It was very common back then (about once a month) for staff or contractors to "bridge" the "highly secured" corporate network with xDSL. It was even more common for the WiFi password to be "password".
About four years after I left, the business unit I worked for got outsourced.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
