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I don't have a anything to cite either, other than personal anecdotes. This has happened many times to folks in my workplace. They come across the PuTTY downlo
by CorpOverreach 9y ago
I don't have a anything to cite either, other than personal anecdotes.
This has happened many times to folks in my workplace. They come across the PuTTY download page and think that it's a shady looking site, and then continue looking elsewhere.
We instead just deploy putty.exe to everyone's machine directly now.
- mikeyjk 9y agoWhy do non technical users need to use PuTTY? Probably showing my general world knowledge ignorance here.
- _JamesA_ 9y agoThere are still plenty of legacy green-screen (text based) applications alive in the corporate world that need to be accessed with an ssh or even telnet client.
- CorpOverreach 9y agoThese aren't non-technical users - a lot of these are long-time UNIX/Linux sysadmins. It's important to note that, especially in large environments, has different skill levels. I know a guy that can go deep into analyzing a kernel dump and figure out exactly what made some obscure application crash, but god help him when it comes to doing basic functions on his Windows PC. Being good at your sysadmin job doesn't always correlate with correctly identifying shady sites.
- kpil 9y agoDetecting a shady website is a core competence of any admin.