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Navigate crazy obstacle courses in pursuit of your holy parking spot in this 80s Arcade Style driving game.Tempt fate & physics as you navigate obstacle courses in pursuit of your holy parking spot in this 80s retro environment in Try Hard Parking!. Put your driving skills to the test in this retro styled game as you jump,drop and carefully steer across levels full of obstacle to reach your holy parking lot.Features:. 10 Unique Crazy Levels with Different Vehicles ranging from 80s known Cars to A-Team's Van.
Difficult, Fun, Fast, Frustrating and Rage Inducing Gameplay with great music to keep your cool. Game Trophies such as 'Grand ma' for slowest and 'Takumi 86' for Fastest or 'Super Tuber' for extreme players. #1.Moderator comment.There is a demo available for this game. Please only post comments about today's game giveaway; other comments either not appropriate, or not about the game will be deleted at the moderator or administrators discretion; however a little light banter among community members and with the moderator to keep this a friendly place to visit will be allowed, and will be judged by the moderator as to whether it is suitable or not to be left. I am posting this in light of the massive increase in negative comments not related to the game being given away, inappropriate comments and spam (Almost 700 spam comments were posted in one day a few weeks ago ) that have occurred over the past several months since the site was updated and in particular since the site started to give away games from the Steam world and since they started using Facebook. I truly believe that if we get lots of decent feedback about the games we get here, more developers will be happy to give away their games. Seeing lots of complaints (and spam) instead of feedback about the game given away will not persuade other developers to give their games away for free.
So please bear this in mind when posting your comments. Any comment not about the game for example complaints, or if deemed unfriendly or inappropriate, will be deleted or added to the spam folder, which automatically black lists the IP address you used. Although I have enjoyed responding to many of those comments, I will no longer waste my time answering comments from community members who should have read the moderation policy.
Negative feedback about the games given away are always welcomed because they can also be very constructive for developers, however, complaining about the way the site is operating or problems about downloading or installing the games should be directed to the giveawayoftheday contact form which I've linked to; alternatively, if the problem is game related and it is late in the day (I can't moderate 24 hours a day), please also post your issue in the forums where you may get a response from the community. Often, such problems are related to your computers set up. Your security may block the installation (for example quite a few game giveaways I've installed have been blocked by my copy of Zemana Anti-malware suite) Also please read the moderation policy which can be found and if you do have a problem please check the FAQ's thread.
Finding a parking place in any downtown city is difficult and depending on where you are, sometimes a near impossible task. Nashville is no exception, but these insider tips will hopefully help you on your next visit to downtown Music City. How to Parallel Park. Parallel parking can be intimidating, but you'll master it in no time with a bit of practice. Before you begin, find a space a few feet longer than your vehicle. Confirm the space is legal and use your flashers to signal as you pull up in front of the space. Shift into reverse and begin slowly.
Thank you.Try Hard ParkingIn BriefThe developer (a lone wolf developer) said this is the hardest and most rage inducing Parking Game in The World. Try Hard Parking takes the classic marble game style requirements of timing and balance then replaces the marble with a vehicle and a hazardous excuse for a city. Excellent, especially for the price. Nice oneSuggestions:If you win a key for Try Hard Parking please give some feedback next week (when the keys are awarded and you've had some time to play) about your opinion of the game, for example, what you liked or disliked about it, or how it could be improved from your point of view. If you don't like this genre at all, please explain why. What, improvements, if any, would change your opinion?
There are thousands of subscribers to the game giveaway of the day every weekend which makes this an ideal forum for giving developers ideas as to what their consumers (i.e you) would like to see in a game. For example, you could suggest extra content such as better or more original mini games, or a level editor that you would like to see that would make it more appealing to you. Maybe you think the graphics are a little dated and are in need of re skinning, or maybe you've just had enough of the genre and want to see something different or something with more originality?If you don't win a key, don't mind playing games via Steam or miss the offer totally you can get the game 24/7 via Steam. It usually costs £1.59/$1.99,Introduction:Tempt fate & physics as you navigate obstacle courses in pursuit of your holy parking spot in this 80s retro environment in Try Hard Parking!. Put your driving skills to the test in this retro styled game as you jump,drop and carefully steer across levels full of obstacle to reach your holy parking lot. This is not your typical parking game. We have so many driving games these days that they are proud of their driving skills.
Do a good time and throw the controller to a friend and see all his driving skills diminish.Edited eference accessed 5th February 2017Installation:Assuming you win a Steam key for Try Hard Parking once you've found it (should be sent to the email you used to enter the giveaway - it must be the email you first used to sign into the game giveaway site. If you’ve used a throwaway email there may be problems getting a key, because the key may be sent to that email. If you have any problems use the contact form.
Hopefully the giveaway team will repost the information they posted several weeks qgo explaining the email situation. ) you have to activate the game via your Steam client. Once activated it will be permanently tied to your Steam profile and you'll be able to install the game at any time, anywhere on any computer, so long as you can validate who you are (usually via emails etc.). If you don't have a Steam account you will first have to download and install the Steam clientThen create a Steam profile/account. Once that has been completed you can input the Steam code that you've received (after completing the form filling) via the game button along the top of the Steam client, (located between friends and Help - see image below).
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From the drop down menu select 'Activate a product on Steam'. This opens a product activation window. Just follow the prompts to complete activation.
Once the Steam code has been accepted, the game will be permanently associated with your Steam account and can be installed any time you wish.If you have a problem installing or activating or getting Try Hard Parking to work, please visit the problems section over in the Game Discussion forums, which I've now incorporated into the FAQ's thread, and which you can findThe Game:Features:1). 10 Unique Crazy Levels with Different Vehicles ranging from 80s known Cars to A-Team's Van.2). Difficult, Fun, Fast, Frustrating and Rage Inducing Gameplay with great music to keep your cool.3). Game Trophies such as 'Grand ma' for slowest and 'Takumi 86' for Fastest or 'Super Tuber' for extreme players.4). Some Trophies can only be achieved within a limited amount of tries after that its gone (Consequence filled Score Resetting, which makes you lose all your best times)5). Steam Achievements with some levels with hidden achievement. (Do 'Trial 1' in under 45 seconds and 5 Tries, to get a cool achievement)How to Play:⦁ Hit 'ENTER' or 'Start' on Xbox360 Controller to Quickly Reset if your vehicle is stuck(which will be a lot of times).
It resets the timer too, but keeps the number of tries.⦁ Use pulses of Acceleration: Don't Go full throttle, use short bursts of speed.⦁ Use Handbrake turns in tight corners: Use brakes and handbrakes, rear wheel slides to get the car in to position. This helps to keep the vehicle in control⦁ Keep wheels in contact: Try to be keep your wheels in contact for traction.Moderator comment.There is a demo available for this gameHERE. Please only post comments about today's game giveaway; other comments either not appropriate, or not about the game will be deleted at the moderator or administrators discretion; however a little light banter among community members and with the moderator to keep this a friendly place to visit will be allowed, and will be judged by the moderator as to whether it is suitable or not to be left. I am posting this in light of the massive increase in negative comments not related to the game being given away, inappropriate comments and spam (Almost 700 spam comments were posted in one day a few weeks ago ) that have occurred over the past several months since the site was updated and in particular since the site started to give away games from the Steam world and since they started using Facebook. I truly believe that if we get lots of decent feedback about the games we get here, more developers will be happy to give away their games. Seeing lots of complaints (and spam) instead of feedback about the game given away will not persuade other developers to give their games away for free. So please bear this in mind when posting your comments.
Any comment not about the game for example complaints, or if deemed unfriendly or inappropriate, will be deleted or added to the spam folder, which automatically black lists the IP address you used. Although I have enjoyed responding to many of those comments, I will no longer waste my time answering comments from community members who should have read the moderation policy.
Negative feedback about the games given away are always welcomed because they can also be very constructive for developers, however, complaining about the way the site is operating or problems about downloading or installing the games should be directed to the giveawayoftheday contact form which I've linked to HERE; alternatively, if the problem is game related and it is late in the day (I can't moderate 24 hours a day), please also post your issue in the forums where you may get a response from the community. Often, such problems are related to your computers set up. Your security may block the installation (for example quite a few game giveaways I've installed have been blocked by my copy of Zemana Anti-malware suite) Also please read the moderation policy which can be found HERE and if you do have a problem please check the FAQ's thread HERE.
Thank you.Try Hard ParkingIn BriefThe developer (a lone wolf developer) said this is the hardest and most rage inducing Parking Game in The World. Try Hard Parking takes the classic marble game style requirements of timing and balance then replaces the marble with a vehicle and a hazardous excuse for a city. Excellent, especially for the price. Nice one Suggestions:If you win a key for Try Hard Parking please give some feedback next week (when the keys are awarded and you've had some time to play) about your opinion of the game, for example, what you liked or disliked about it, or how it could be improved from your point of view. If you don't like this genre at all, please explain why.
What, improvements, if any, would change your opinion? There are thousands of subscribers to the game giveaway of the day every weekend which makes this an ideal forum for giving developers ideas as to what their consumers (i.e you) would like to see in a game. For example, you could suggest extra content such as better or more original mini games, or a level editor that you would like to see that would make it more appealing to you. Maybe you think the graphics are a little dated and are in need of re skinning, or maybe you've just had enough of the genre and want to see something different or something with more originality?If you don't win a key, don't mind playing games via Steam or miss the offer totally you can get the game 24/7 via Steam HERE. It usually costs £1.59/$1.99, Introduction:Tempt fate & physics as you navigate obstacle courses in pursuit of your holy parking spot in this 80s retro environment in Try Hard Parking!. Put your driving skills to the test in this retro styled game as you jump,drop and carefully steer across levels full of obstacle to reach your holy parking lot. This is not your typical parking game.
We have so many driving games these days that they are proud of their driving skills. Do a good time and throw the controller to a friend and see all his driving skills diminish.Edited eference accessed HERE 5th February 2017Installation:Assuming you win a Steam key for Try Hard Parking once you've found it (should be sent to the email you used to enter the giveaway - it must be the email you first used to sign into the game giveaway site. If you’ve used a throwaway email there may be problems getting a key, because the key may be sent to that email. If you have any problems use the contact form. Hopefully the giveaway team will repost the information they posted several weeks qgo explaining the email situation.
) you have to activate the game via your Steam client. Once activated it will be permanently tied to your Steam profile and you'll be able to install the game at any time, anywhere on any computer, so long as you can validate who you are (usually via emails etc.). If you don't have a Steam account you will first have to download and install the Steam client HERE Then create a Steam profile/account. Once that has been completed you can input the Steam code that you've received (after completing the form filling) via the game button along the top of the Steam client, (located between friends and Help - see image below). From the drop down menu select 'Activate a product on Steam'.
This opens a product activation window. Just follow the prompts to complete activation. Once the Steam code has been accepted, the game will be permanently associated with your Steam account and can be installed any time you wish.If you have a problem installing or activating or getting Try Hard Parking to work, please visit the problems section over in the Game Discussion forums, which I've now incorporated into the FAQ's thread, and which you can find HEREThe Game:Features:1).
10 Unique Crazy Levels with Different Vehicles ranging from 80s known Cars to A-Team's Van.2). Difficult, Fun, Fast, Frustrating and Rage Inducing Gameplay with great music to keep your cool.3). Game Trophies such as 'Grand ma' for slowest and 'Takumi 86' for Fastest or 'Super Tuber' for extreme players.4).
Some Trophies can only be achieved within a limited amount of tries after that its gone (Consequence filled Score Resetting, which makes you lose all your best times)5). Steam Achievements with some levels with hidden achievement.
(Do 'Trial 1' in under 45 seconds and 5 Tries, to get a cool achievement)How to Play:⦁Hit 'ENTER' or 'Start' on Xbox360 Controller to Quickly Reset if your vehicle is stuck(which will be a lot of times). It resets the timer too, but keeps the number of tries.⦁Use pulses of Acceleration: Don't Go full throttle, use short bursts of speed.⦁Use Handbrake turns in tight corners: Use brakes and handbrakes, rear wheel slides to get the car in to position. This helps to keep the vehicle in control⦁Keep wheels in contact: Try to be keep your wheels in contact for traction. Watching the tires instrad of the entire car may improve the sense of direction and control⦁Don't get stuck: The car gets stuck easily on corners & ledges, so it requires a bit of precision to drive.⦁Navigation on Level Screen - Click on the arrows on the level selection screen to move around different Level Grids.- Mouse over Blocks too see Trophies (some are achievements).⦁ You can reset (enter or the Start button in controller) to the start at any point in your progressoriginally posted by Alex AvardTry Hard Parking is unlikely to be a cakewalk for anyone, even the most experienced drivers. One-man developer, Sayem Chaklader is looking to seriously test your patience, humility and hand-eye coordination with his first official Steam title and the experience may even justify a rage quit every now and again, albeit one which doesn’t end up with anything getting damaged (safety first, people).Tasked with navigating a car through a series of increasinly difficult obstacle courses, it’s more than likely that the number of retries you’ll need to complete each level will extend well into the double digits, and likely even go beyond into the hundreds. Luckily, the game features a hotkey which instantly resets the car to its starting position, encouraging a quick-fire rinse and repeat playstyle which suits the trial and error approach to mastering each course.
At first, it may feel as though the small assortment of selectable cars in Try Hard Parking feel awkward to navigate. While this does ring true for a few of the micro-interactions; for example there's a slight delay between pressing the accelerate button and seeing it occur in-game. It becomes clear that this seemingly apparent awkwardness is instead a control scheme that begs to be learned, practiced and mastered.The highly precise turning mechanics provide a fine balance to make up for what the acceleration lacks in sensitivity, establishing a system of traversal which requires patient caution and thoughtful oversight. Every single touch of a button must be strategically considered before acted upon, as the decision to press one even in the slightest can represent the difference between gratifying success and total wipe-out. Sometimes, after failing to overcome the first hurdle of a particular level following an hour of endless attempts, it can feel as though you’ve hit a brick wall, but it is only through this dogged, repeated practice where Try Hard Parking really gets to shine. That motivation to conquer each environmental hurdle creates an addictive gameplay loop, and the familiar instinct of “one more go” can quickly take hold of your entire attention span before you even realize it. Theres an 80’s retro aesthetic that 'Try Hard Parking’s' visuals are steeped in, particularly the fact that game looks as though it is being played on a cassette tape of an old television.
It’s a good thing this stylistic effect is on display too, since it acts as a handy filter to gloss over the otherwise low-grade models and textures, which are perhaps the game’s weakest assets. The soundtrack provides the perfect musical backdrop to try and keep you calm and composed as you navigate the potentially aggravating challenges that are set before you.
#4I really wanted to give this one a try because it looks like a fun game, kinda looks like a spin off of the classic game Marble Madness only with cars.The reason I am not joining the giveaway is for one thing I don't have a Facebook account, and although I do have a Twitter account, rather than tweeting a tweet when you select 'Tweet' a page opens up wanting you to authorize GOTD Competition to 'USE MY ACCOUNT'. And by that I mean it says:This application will be able to:Read Tweets from your timeline.See who you follow, and follow new people.Update your profile.Post Tweets for you. I really wanted to give this one a try because it looks like a fun game, kinda looks like a spin off of the classic game Marble Madness only with cars.The reason I am not joining the giveaway is for one thing I don't have a Facebook account, and although I do have a Twitter account, rather than tweeting a tweet when you select 'Tweet' a page opens up wanting you to authorize GOTD Competition to 'USE MY ACCOUNT'. And by that I mean it says:This application will be able to:Read Tweets from your timeline.See who you follow, and follow new people.Update your profile.Post Tweets for you. The main page of GOTD says 'Game giveaway of the day' and 'Proceed to download page'.
But it doesn't seem to be either, it seems to be a competition, and one that's finished as well!.Moderator comment.Try Hard Parking was a giveaway from last week, and ran until this morning at 8am this morning (UK time). It was limited to 100 licenses. The winners were announced shortly after the giveaway ended.
#2I really wanted to give this one a try because it looks like a fun game, kinda looks like a spin off of the classic game Marble Madness only with cars.The reason I am not joining the giveaway is for one thing I don't have a Facebook account, and although I do have a Twitter account, rather than tweeting a tweet when you select 'Tweet' a page opens up wanting you to authorize GOTD Competition to 'USE MY ACCOUNT'. And by that I mean it says:This application will be able to:Read Tweets from your timeline.See who you follow, and follow new people.Update your profile.Post Tweets for you.I don't see any purpose in giving anyone other than me access to my account and the ability to Update MY PROFILE or POST TWEETS FOR ME.If it was just a simple tweet, I'd be all for that. I wonder how many people actually took the time to read the pop up window when you select the Twitter function.Thanks, but no thanks. I really wanted to give this one a try because it looks like a fun game, kinda looks like a spin off of the classic game Marble Madness only with cars.The reason I am not joining the giveaway is for one thing I don't have a Facebook account, and although I do have a Twitter account, rather than tweeting a tweet when you select 'Tweet' a page opens up wanting you to authorize GOTD Competition to 'USE MY ACCOUNT'. And by that I mean it says:This application will be able to:Read Tweets from your timeline.See who you follow, and follow new people.Update your profile.Post Tweets for you.I don't see any purpose in giving anyone other than me access to my account and the ability to Update MY PROFILE or POST TWEETS FOR ME.If it was just a simple tweet, I'd be all for that.
I wonder how many people actually took the time to read the pop up window when you select the Twitter function.Thanks, but no thanks. Andrea, Odd that you say all you ask for is a tweet, because you OBVIOUSLY did not. I would suggest people using Twitter check their permissions. Like the old saying goes: 'If it's too good to be true, then it probably is not true'. I checked out your Twitter option several times, NOT JUST ONCE.Either way, those ARE NOT MY OPINIONS, those are FACTS.Like I said before THANKS, BUT NO THANKS, the only giveaway is someone giving away access to their Twitter Account depending on the person they are giving away the permissions to.As for your GOTD Installer, I don't trust that either. But I will get back to that at a later date.Like I said, THANKS, BUT NO THANKS.Moderator comment.Hi John, would be interesting to hear why you don't trust the giveaway installer? Literally millions of games have been installed using the giveaway installers over the 10 years since the project started and there has never been a confirmed case of a game installing malware.
The problem with the latest installer as you are probably aware of is the Themida wrapper, that was added to stop certain members of the community ripping off the executable, which once ripped could be installed at any time on any computer. Some community members even went as far as uploading the unprotected executable to peer to peer sites, where some of those games are probably still available. Also some sought 'likes' on their You Tube accounts (and elsewhere) by uploading videos of how to do rip the giveaway and/or posted written details of how to do it on various gaming sites and blogs.
Developers were not happy about this as it meant their games were basically easily accessible at any time instead of the limited 24 hour period to anyone who didn't mind stealing them; so the giveaway team incorporated a Themida based wrapper to protect the executable from hacking. That has caused many community members to experience problems with installing giveaways, usually due to oversensitive security, but all have been solvable either by white-listing the giveaway installer with your anti malware suite, installing the game in safe mode or temporarily turning off your security. As I've said many times, the game giveaway site has been operating for over a decade now, with games being available most weekends and for over a year (between December 2006 to April 2008) every day apart from a couple of weekends when they needed to update the site). Andrea, Odd that you say all you ask for is a tweet, because you OBVIOUSLY did not. I would suggest people using Twitter check their permissions. Like the old saying goes: 'If it's too good to be true, then it probably is not true'. I checked out your Twitter option several times, NOT JUST ONCE.Either way, those ARE NOT MY OPINIONS, those are FACTS.Like I said before THANKS, BUT NO THANKS, the only giveaway is someone giving away access to their Twitter Account depending on the person they are giving away the permissions to.As for your GOTD Installer, I don't trust that either.
But I will get back to that at a later date.Like I said, THANKS, BUT NO THANKS.Moderator comment.Hi John, would be interesting to hear why you don't trust the giveaway installer? Literally millions of games have been installed using the giveaway installers over the 10 years since the project started and there has never been a confirmed case of a game installing malware.
The problem with the latest installer as you are probably aware of is the Themida wrapper, that was added to stop certain members of the community ripping off the executable, which once ripped could be installed at any time on any computer. Some community members even went as far as uploading the unprotected executable to peer to peer sites, where some of those games are probably still available. Also some sought 'likes' on their You Tube accounts (and elsewhere) by uploading videos of how to do rip the giveaway and/or posted written details of how to do it on various gaming sites and blogs. Developers were not happy about this as it meant their games were basically easily accessible at any time instead of the limited 24 hour period to anyone who didn't mind stealing them; so the giveaway team incorporated a Themida based wrapper to protect the executable from hacking. That has caused many community members to experience problems with installing giveaways, usually due to oversensitive security, but all have been solvable either by white-listing the giveaway installer with your anti malware suite, installing the game in safe mode or temporarily turning off your security. As I've said many times, the game giveaway site has been operating for over a decade now, with games being available most weekends and for over a year (between December 2006 to April 2008) every day apart from a couple of weekends when they needed to update the site).
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It's a rule of thumb in cybersecurity that the more sensitive your system, the less you want it to touch the internet. But as the US hunkers down to limit the spread of Covid-19, cybersecurity measures present a difficult technical challenge to working remotely for employees at critical infrastructure, intelligence agencies, and anywhere else with high-security networks. In some cases, working from home isn't an option at all.Companies with especially sensitive data or operations often limit remote connections, segment networks to limit a hacker's access if they do get in, and sometimes even disconnect their most important machines from the internet altogether. Late last week, the US government's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued an to critical infrastructure companies to prepare for remote work scenarios as Covid-19 spreads. That means checking that their virtual private networks are patched, implementing multifactor authentication, and testing out remote access scenarios.But cybersecurity consultants who actually work with those high-stakes clients—including electric utilities, oil and gas firms, and manufacturing companies—say that it's not always so simple.
For many of their most critical customers, and even more so for intelligence agencies, remote work and security don't mix. 'Organizations are realizing that work-from-home would be very difficult to execute,' says Joe Slowik, who previously led the computer emergency response team at the Department of Energy before joining the critical-infrastructure-focused security firm Dragos. 'This should be a fairly good wake-up call. You need to figure out a way that if individuals cannot physically access the control system environment for a service that cannot stop, like electricity, water, and wastewater or similar services, you ensure continuous operation—even in the face of an environment where you might be risking your employees' lives if they continue to commute into the office.'
'Administrators are bumping each other off as they try to work and log in.' Jake Williams, Rendition InfoSecFor many industrial networks, the highest standard of security is an 'air gap,' a physical disconnect between the inner sanctum of software connected to physical equipment and the less sensitive, internet-connected IT systems. But very few private-sector firms, with the exception of highly regulated nuclear power utilities, have implemented actual air gaps. Many companies have instead attempted to restrict the connections between their IT networks and their so-called OT or operational technology networks—the industrial control systems where the compromise of digital computers could have dangerous effects, such as giving hackers access to an electric utility's circuit breakers or a manufacturing floor's robots. Those restricted connections create choke points for hackers, but also for remote workers.
Rendition InfoSec founder and security consultant Jake Williams describes one manufacturing client that carefully separated its IT and OT systems. Only 'jump boxes,' servers that bridge the divide between sensitive manufacturing control systems and nonsensitive IT systems, connected them. Those jump boxes run very limited software to prevent them from serving as in-roads for hackers. But they also only support one connection at a time, which means the company's IT administrators have found themselves vying for access. 'Administrators are bumping each other off as they try to work and log in,' says Williams.
'These jump boxes that were built to facilitate secure remote access in emergency situations weren't built to support this situation where everyone is performing routine maintenance and operations remotely.' For the most critical of critical infrastructure, however, like power plants and oil refineries, remote work isn't just leading to technical snafus.
It's often impossible for many staffers, says Chris Sistrunk, a security consultant for FireEye who formerly worked as an electrical engineer for power utility Entergy. 'There's no way to fully remotely run some of those plants,' Sistrunk says. 'You don't work from home. Essential engineers and operators will always be there 24/7.'
In those scenarios, Dragos' Slowik says, companies have to instead try to limit the biological exposure of their most critical operations teams to prevent them from being quarantined—which is often easier said than done, given that they're free to mingle with potentially infected people during their off-hours. 'It's a real touchy subject,' says Slowik. 'You need them available at the office, and you can only restrict them to a certain extent—because we're not China–so how does that balance out?' Utilities have already been struggling with that balance. The Edison Electric Institute, a nonprofit that represents US electric utilities, that as many as 40 percent of utility workers could be home sick, quarantined or at home taking care of sick relatives. And electric utility news site that many utilities across the country are limiting travel, shifting as many staff as possible to remote work, scheduling meetings as videoconferences, and ramping up hygiene practices.Intelligence agencies and other parts of the government that keep classified information locked away from the internet present an even starker problem. NSA staff are strictly forbidden to work from home, and intelligence community sources tell WIRED that NSA policy hasn't changed in spite of the current pandemic.
Staff have been asked to limit nonessential travel, but they've received no organization-wide instructions on how their remote work policy might shift to account for Covid-19, even for older employees or those with health conditions who might be more at risk. Instead, they've been asked to practice social distancing and told that if they're forced to self-quarantine due to potential exposure to the virus, they're free to take up to two weeks of paid administrative leave.The result may simply be far higher rates of viral transmission among government staffers who work in classified environments, says Jake Williams, himself a former NSA analyst. He describes his time at the NSA's outpost at Fort Gordon in Georgia as an open-floor-plan office. Staffers rarely called in sick, due to their mission's time sensitivity. Many worked in shifts, rotating 24/7 at the same desks.
'You’re sitting down at a desk someone else sat at, typed at, coughed at,' Williams says. 'I have no idea what they're going to do, but I cannot fathom how it won’t spread like wildfire.' That inescapable risk, as with so many other professions like medical, food service, retail, transit, sanitation, and factory workers, puts the problem in perspective: Remote work may pose some serious challenges for highly secured workplaces.
But for the federal staffers and power grid operators in the most sensitive organizations of all—like so many others—it's an impossible luxury.WIRED is providing to stories about public health and how to protect yourself during the. Sign up for our newsletter for the latest updates,.
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