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.
That is so annoying… when I’m working from home I just start a meeting with myself in Teams to keep the pc from autolocking.
That’s actually genius. Here’s me writing a script to just move the mouse randomly lol, starting a Teams meeting would’ve been way simpler