I’ve spent the last week in all-day meetings … which is (not) exactly the thing I want to do as I try to wrap up a year early to go visit family over the holidays. I’ll post more about those meetings later because they really were interesting.
However, during the meetings I was surprised to see how many people left the room with their PC (and yes, it was always a Windows PC) wide open for all to hack upon. People would leave for lunch, or worse, for the rest of the day, leaving their entire computer logged in and open to the world.
As an IT department, we have not yet enabled (forced) settings to prevent this (but it is on the schedule for 2008). After the first meeting day, I made a comment about it to the group and didn’t get much more than a (less than heart-felt) “yeah, we shouldn’t do that.”
By day three, I couldn’t help prove my point. On the laptop (of a good friend of mine) I decided to use the open machine to make a few adjustments, or customizations:
As you can see, hiding his “start” bar, adding a Mac background and increasing the size of his scrollbars (which is found DEEP in display properties) left his computer just anoying enough to get my point acrossed.
Amazingly enough, everyone started locking their computers (or taking their computers with them) after that!
What people here are saying…