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DanBC on Oct 2, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Babadook: Connectionless, Persistent Powershell “B...

> who exactly is locking your desktop supposed to protect against? Do some offices have untrusted people running around with access to workstations?

Yes, exactly this. Why is that surprising? Why bother with user accounts with audit trails; why not just use user:GUEST pass:GUESS for everything?

There's a bunch of places where you want to make sure that trusted employees are not gaining access to things they shouldn't. EG health care providers.

arethuza on Oct 2, 2015 [–]

I would suggest that if you can trivially access confidential data from an unlocked workstation then you probably have bigger problems.

DanBC on Oct 2, 2015 | [–]

By "unlocked workstation" here I mean "unlocked, and logged in".

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