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I assume you never worked in academia. Sometimes hpc are installed by researchers (incl myself) as there is no budget for IT staff.


Still not your responsibility. If they don't cough up the cash to properly manage the security, they can't expect any. Just because a trucking company doesn't want to pay for a mechanic, doesn't mean they can expect their drivers to repair blown engines.


Most of the time

- all input ports are blocked. Kinda provides security. Works fine as if things are so dire most academia would be hacked.

- these are not valuable like data from SSN or bank. So fewer attacks.

- if something gets f*ked - it gets bad name - people laugh it off. No one will get fired.

I know uni presidents that keep passwords on excel sheets. Life is like that.

Let's be honest corporate says training, retraining, testing - IT will install 3 different malware scanners and 2 AV to HOG CPU etc but some idiot will approve MFA/TOTP (okta) or like solarwinds. So everyone has their stupidity.




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