[ale] OT: Haven't seen this in a while, but it always makesme chuckle...

[Pete Hardie]

Geoffrey wrote:
> Reminds me of a good story.  Years ago, I was on a team responsible for 
> a time reporting system.  As this type of system contains sensitive 
> data, we added an idle timeout to all the services.  6 months or so 
> later, We've got a customer calling complaining the system is slow.  Low 
> story short, one of OUR support folks told one of the supervisors that 
> they could alleviate the need to continously log back in by placing a 
> stapler or some such device on the space bar of the keyboard.  Well word 
> got around and there were apparently many a stapler riding high upon the 
> space bar of many a keyboard.  This was in a manufacturing facility, 
> 100's of supervisors.
> 
> Anyway, we ended up adding code that would watch for the same character 
> over and over again, and time out if we detected as such...

Funny, I think that CSE has worked at every company I've developed for.....


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