"This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Curt" who once worked as IT security manager at a company where the helpdesk manager routinely ignored company policy by not logging out of his PC. The machine sat there ready for use, instead of reverting to a password-protected screensaver that could only be dispelled by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del to spawn a login dialog."
"That behavior caught the eye of some community college students the company allowed to work on the helpdesk for unpaid work experience. As Curt tells it, the students could not resist temptation and took a screenshot of the helpdesk manager's desktop. They then tweaked the screensaver to show that static screenshot. After about a week of this, the helpdesk manager angrily asked for his PC to be re-imaged, because it was occasionally locking up."
Curt served as IT security manager at a company where the helpdesk manager routinely left his PC logged in, bypassing the password-protected screensaver requiring Ctrl-Alt-Del. Community college students working unpaid on the helpdesk captured a screenshot of the desktop and set that image as the screensaver. After about a week the helpdesk manager complained of intermittent locking and demanded a reimage; a hard reboot restored functionality. Curt suggested pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del to reveal the login prompt, the helpdesk manager realised the prank, laughed, and acknowledged the point about locking workstations.
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