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Comment by horeszko

Perhaps part of the problem is that an active shooter is easy to visualize and understand whereas unsecured credentials stored in cookies are an abstract and difficult to visualize problem for management.

Furthermore, turnstiles are easy to promote and take credit for. Secure web authentication would have to be explained to and understood by the boss's boss before credit for it could be claimed.

I suspect it's these aspects of organizational reality that results in security theater.

parent horeszko 8 months ago

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