>In the end you get forced to use some other way to get the job done, and that way may be a serious security breach, but you keep your mouth shut because if they close that you can't do anything.

Stopped keeping my mouth shut - but did not start shouting all over the place. My compromize: find a person at the location you think has a balanced view of security hurdles, inform them.

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>In some places the users plead with contractors to help fight their own IT teams who take their security measures too seriously the TSA way. Everyone gets forced to do this and that so that these guys can justify their existence, while OTOH anyone physically present can stick a thumbdrive into any machine and walk away with oodles of data, which they don't care about.

Most places USB ports are closed physically now. But if I am at the location, I usually figure out in 15min how to get access via external, forbidden device.