I would argue that it IS productive. Someone may come along, read this silly tyrad between two people on security.

The site I run is actually restricted by MAC address due to the sensitivity of the data. Yes, you can run a proxy on your local machine just like you can put a non-ssl to ssl proxy between a secure site to make it insecure. Beyond that, I usually hand deliver all passwords since so many of my cow-orkers leave their computers unlocked :( Sorta defeats it all, eh? But you can't blame me for leaving your keys in the lock. :)