Security guys seem the worst at forgetting the "point." I'll give you an instance and see if you can relate. I'm in a meeting discussing a disaster recovery site design for the University. One of the comments was that a backdoor type of access maybe required so that in the event of a disaster we would be able to get in and bring everything online. The security guy became somewhat incredulous. "I can't believe that you would want to put hundreds of thousands of dollars into security just to allow someone to bypass it." I sat while he went off and then asked if it made sense to spend a couple of million to bring a DR site online only to make it useless during a disaster because it was so "secure."
Its not just IT security guys but security guys in general. The security guards at our apartment complex have the same sort of mentality. We have yet to get a 2nd hang tag for our new car. Some of the security guards have a hard time with this, they've been told that they have to sign in non-residents (i.e. someone w/o a tag) but we're residents. They continue to sign me in, everyday they ask me my name, to the point that its a joke. Why not go get a hang tag? I can't let them win, I'm gonna stick it to the man, or in this case the security guys!!
