The Daily WTF

Bruce W‘s employer was best described as The Mega Bureaucracy. It’s the kind of place where it takes twenty weeks to provision web servers, because of the number of forms, checkpoints, and management sign-offs involved. The Mega Bureaucracy did all of this because it kept their environment “stable”, and equally important, “secure”.

Speaking of security, the Mega Bureaucracy needed to expand its offices, and went out and constructed two new fourteen story office buildings which would serve as their headquarters. These offices needed to be validated for security, and Bruce was invited to be on the team that would perform the assessment. The first area they visited was the mailroom which served both buildings.

Of course, there was great concern over mailroom security. You didn’t want things being added to or removed from the mailstream without going through the right process. This meant that the mailroom needed physical access controls:

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