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No one should care as long as you do your job.
by akerro 8y ago
No one should care as long as you do your job.
- zulln 8y agoUsing a VPN for everything they have right to care though. All job-related traffic goes through it as well, hence potentially leaking sensitive stuff?
- NickLamp 8y agoI can think of many things one might do on a VPN that an employer might and probably should care about
- admax88q 8y agoI can also think of many things a bad employee might do that the employer should probably care about. But if you hired someone you've given them a tremendous amount of responsibility and power, if you can't trust them to do their job without monitoring everything they do then you should just fire them and hire someone more trustworthy.
- draugadrotten 8y ago> But if you hired someone you've given them a tremendous amount of responsibility and power, if you can't trust them to do their job without monitoring everything they do then you should just fire them and hire someone more trustworthy. Trust but verify, as Reagan used to say. We give even more power to the presidents and senators, but imagine what would happen in there was not plenty of people around to monitor what they did with that power. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust,_but_verify https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust,_but_verify
- tptacek 8y agoThere is basically no IT shop at a large company that operates this way, and there's a reason for that.
- jeena 8y agoI would be interested of the reason because we've been fighting this successfully for a number of years with our clients IT departments (while we were smaller). They hired us to make the developement process better and one of the things we always found problematic was that when the software developers didn't have normal internet access (but instead tunneled everything through some bottleneck http proxy) they both lost the good developers because they were fed up with not being able to do their job efficently and thus the quality of their software went down. A year ago we've been bought by a big company to help them do what we did untill then but on a much bigger scale. The first thing we did was to get rid of the restricted internet. And now we again help our customers (big car manufacturers) to make their processes better. And even for here every developer has free access to the Internet to be able to work efficiently. But as I said in the beginning, I'm really interested in the reasons for this behaviour of those large companies. My suspission is that it's just easier for the IT department to work against the developers instead of helping them to do their job.