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I would be interested in what constitutes as "jaywalking" in a software company. Something everyone does but can be grounds to termination? Can anyone tell me
by dnate 11y ago
I would be interested in what constitutes as "jaywalking" in a software company. Something everyone does but can be grounds to termination? Can anyone tell me about specific cases?
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- lazyant 11y agomaybe login in with somebody else's credentials? or some other security-related or procedural stuff that he bypassed to make things easier? using non-authorized (personal) equipment or software? just speculating
- xyzzy4 11y agoOne time when I was an intern, I got screamed at by an old-timer technician when he found out I connected a few computers in a lab room to the Internet. Because an Internet connection causes viruses.
- daemin 11y agoWell one certain way to have security on a computer is to have an air gap, i.e. do not connect it to any other network. (And yes air gap made more sense when all networking was with cabled, not with wifi.)
- xyzzy4 11y agoHis concern made sense but I thought he overreacted.
- daodedickinson 11y agoI can definitely think of many labs, for example at universities, where connecting them to the internet should result in termination.
- justinsaccount 11y agoYeah, bypassing procedure was my thought. This sentence says a lot: > If a week prior, I had typed a few different keystrokes, I would never have been in that room. So I doubt it was something like "Looked at a users private information"
- CocaKoala 11y agoWhy does that make you think it's not looking at user's private information? He's running a test, and he wants to make sure his new function retrieves data properly. He can search for his own name, but out of idle curiosity and boredom (he's seen his own data a million times, he wants something visually distinct on his screen), he searches for the name of a friend of his that he hung out with last week. It's only a few different keystrokes to type the alternate name, but now he's accessing private information and gets canned.
- justinsaccount 11y agoAh, good point. That sounds completely plausible.
- justinsaccount 11y agoThe first thing that came to mind was something like deploying something without going through the proper process or modifying something directly in production. (It probably isn't either of those things since I'm sure their tooling prevents that sort of thing)
- scoates 11y ago> modifying something directly in production That's a good way to lose access to production forever.
- LgWoodenBadger 11y ago"Misuse of company resources" like "reading/commenting on hacker news from work." The ability to find something "everyone does" in order to get rid of people you don't like, for whatever reason.