One chestnut from my history in lottery game development:

While our security staff was incredibly tight and did a generally good job, oftentimes levels of paranoia were off the charts.

Once they went around hot gluing shut all of the “unnecessary” USB ports in our PCs under the premise of mitigating data theft via thumb drive, while ignoring that we were all Internet-connected and VPNs are a thing, also that every machine had a RW optical drive.

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    1 year ago

    Could work if dev was upstream from prod. But honestly there would be no difference between that and branches.

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      1 year ago

      Maybe it is a rights issue. Preventing a prod build agent of sorts to access develop code.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah…assuming that the policy was written “from blood” (meaning someone did something stupid).

        But even then you can put other checks and balances in place to make sure that kind of thing doesn’t happen.

        This is such an extreme reaction though. Or the policy was made from someone dumb