> ... management didn't quite see what was wrong with
> that. Instead, they told the client to NEVER copy
> paste content from other pages.
I'm reminded of the story about Feynman exposing the security problems with the combination locks used on safes at Los Alamos and Oak Ridge. Instead of fixing the problem, management just told people not to let Feynman near their safes.
> He tells the story of being in Oak Ridge, and delivering
> a report to a colonel there. He reports that the colonel
> felt himself far too important to have an ordinary safe
> -- he ordered a special multi-ton safe. Feynman was
> delighted to discover that this big, important safe used
> the exact same type of lock as their little safes did,
> and just to be sure, he took the last two numbers off it
> while standing in the colonel's office. After the colonel
> closed the safe, Feynman told him the safes weren't
> secure, and proved it by opening the safe, then
> explaining how he did it. He told the colonel that the
> vulnerability was in leaving the safe open while he
> worked. "I see, very interesting," replied the colonel.
> Several months later, Feynman was again at Oak Ridge, and
> was surprised at all the secretaries telling him, "Don't
> come in the office! Don't come in here!"
> It developed that the colonel had immediately sent around
> a memo asking everyone, "During his last visit here, was
> Professor Feynman in your office?" Those that answered
> yes received another memo: "Change your safe combination."
> That was his solution - Feynman himself was the danger.
> Meanwhile, of course, people still continued to work with
> their safes open ...
