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Ha, funny you should mention that. I am in fact looking for a job. Luckily the one interview I've had since losing the phone was on-site. If I need to particip

by ymse 8y ago

Ha, funny you should mention that. I am in fact looking for a job. Luckily the one interview I've had since losing the phone was on-site. If I need to participate in on-call rotation or similar, I expect the employer to issue a phone. For a remote job, I will obviously get one myself -- but then strictly for job-related activities. (by the way, if anyone is looking for an experienced infrastructure engineer/"DevOps" guy, give me a cal...errh email)

MaulingMonkey 8y ago
A skype number or somesuch might do in a pinch even for phone interviews.
jsmthrowaway 8y ago
Interesting calculus of choices there: I don’t miss the distraction or privacy implications of my personal phone, yet I expect a company to issue me a phone which comes with distraction and privacy implications (the subject surveillance of the article disregards whether a pocketed phone is corporate because it can work with numbers directly), and I also don’t maintain a landline to sit for a phone screen to find that opportunity in the first place, so I expect to talk to you over Zoom (ceding more privacy; surprise, cellular call content is legally sensitive for LE, video packets aren’t) or in person. You probably don’t realize nor intend this, but that can be a large red flag for your candidacy from the other side of the table, particularly if the role involves security because you’re broadcasting a slight misjudgment of your threat vectors and exposure. The number of resumes most folks go through, expecting ravens from Winterfell will get you dropped fast. Torvalds could probably get away with making initial hailing frequencies that difficult, but you or I should just buy a phone number of some kind, as much as it sucks. The phone isn’t the problem if you apply opsec correctly, buy the right one, and operate it like a compromise hazard. (It is.)
effingwewt 8y ago
I went several years using only wifi services on my phone, including voice and text services if I really needed them. Unfortunately it didn't help me much as, being OCD,I tend to quickly find other things to focus too intently on. Anyway, point is, if you need a temporary phone while job hunting, try google voice? I hate google now but this may help temporarily, or maybe you could find a better provider (other than google, that is). Good luck with the job hunt!

by ymse 8y ago

MaulingMonkey 8y ago

A skype number or somesuch might do in a pinch even for phone interviews.

jsmthrowaway 8y ago

Interesting calculus of choices there: I don’t miss the distraction or privacy implications of my personal phone, yet I expect a company to issue me a phone which comes with distraction and privacy implications (the subject surveillance of the article disregards whether a pocketed phone is corporate because it can work with numbers directly), and I also don’t maintain a landline to sit for a phone screen to find that opportunity in the first place, so I expect to talk to you over Zoom (ceding more privacy; surprise, cellular call content is legally sensitive for LE, video packets aren’t) or in person. You probably don’t realize nor intend this, but that can be a large red flag for your candidacy from the other side of the table, particularly if the role involves security because you’re broadcasting a slight misjudgment of your threat vectors and exposure. The number of resumes most folks go through, expecting ravens from Winterfell will get you dropped fast. Torvalds could probably get away with making initial hailing frequencies that difficult, but you or I should just buy a phone number of some kind, as much as it sucks. The phone isn’t the problem if you apply opsec correctly, buy the right one, and operate it like a compromise hazard. (It is.)

effingwewt 8y ago

I went several years using only wifi services on my phone, including voice and text services if I really needed them. Unfortunately it didn't help me much as, being OCD,I tend to quickly find other things to focus too intently on. Anyway, point is, if you need a temporary phone while job hunting, try google voice? I hate google now but this may help temporarily, or maybe you could find a better provider (other than google, that is). Good luck with the job hunt!