I think Frank is correct. I am working on a Masters in Cyber security and there is not a category of threats posed by accessibility options on a workstation. That administrator is being willfully ignorant or is just a control freak that doesn't truly understand security. Greg B. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Ryan Shugart Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2014 11:26 PM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Looking for feedback on a grad project Sounds like that sysadmin has no clue about security, I’ve never heard that anywhere else and don’t see how disabling accessibility options would impact security at all. Perhaps it was just an excuse for him to have more control over the workstations? Really odd. Ryan
On Nov 19, 2014, at 10:05 AM, Frank Ventura <frank.ventura@littlebreezes.com> wrote:
I have heard this as well. I also have been told by one System Admin that the first thing he does after configuring a workstation is to disable the accessibility options, for "security" reasons. Sounds pretty insecure security thinking to me. Frank
-----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Chris Smart Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2014 10:23 AM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Looking for feedback on a grad project
I was told in no uncertain terms by a large antivirus vendor that their software would not be made accessible, because they consider keyboard input to be a security risk. I know at least one other person who was told that as well. I'm just mentioning that as an example of some of the thinking out there.
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