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I've only been a professional for 8 years but I've never had this experience as a developer.

by ilikehurdles 7y ago

commandlinefan 7y ago
How can you be sure?
- dharmab 7y ago
  Because every place I've worked (including corporations) I've had local admin on my box and could see the entire process tree. Usually you have to be running all the antivirus and monitoring stuff to connect to the employee network/VPN, but when you're off VPN you can kill those processes off.
  - gruez 7y ago
    >Because every place I've worked (including corporations) I've had local admin on my box and could see the entire process tree. That's assuming that the spyware isn't some sort of rootkit that tries to hide its presence. If you're on windows, it's also very easy to hide behind some generic looking executables like svchost.exe
    - obmelvin 7y ago
      You are certainly correct, but a bit of light digging + reflection on your company can give you a lot of confidence. For example, I work at a startup and I can say with great certainty that my boss has way too much going on for him to have installed any sort of rootkit after wiping the previous data and before I set up my admin account.
      - ianai 7y ago
        You’re not the average employee-computer user!
- ddoolin 7y ago
  I've been driven to the store and told to pick out my own computer and accessories and nobody ever had it in their hands for any length of time other than the employee who carried it to me. This has happened in two of my seven or so jobs. As a counterpoint, however, at another position the boss was indeed spying on us, which wasn't surprising if you worked there for any appreciable time since he was a complete control freak.
  - ianai 7y ago
    That’s far from average practice. I couldn’t care less for the obviously non-abusive cases. They’ll never number significantly.
rovr138 7y ago
But not criminal (assuming it’s their equipment).
elbear 7y ago
I've had the same happen to me (and all my colleagues) at my first work place as a developer.

I've only been a professional for 8 years but I've never had this experience as a developer.

commandlinefan 7y ago

How can you be sure?

dharmab 7y ago
Because every place I've worked (including corporations) I've had local admin on my box and could see the entire process tree. Usually you have to be running all the antivirus and monitoring stuff to connect to the employee network/VPN, but when you're off VPN you can kill those processes off.
- gruez 7y ago
  >Because every place I've worked (including corporations) I've had local admin on my box and could see the entire process tree. That's assuming that the spyware isn't some sort of rootkit that tries to hide its presence. If you're on windows, it's also very easy to hide behind some generic looking executables like svchost.exe
  - obmelvin 7y ago
    You are certainly correct, but a bit of light digging + reflection on your company can give you a lot of confidence. For example, I work at a startup and I can say with great certainty that my boss has way too much going on for him to have installed any sort of rootkit after wiping the previous data and before I set up my admin account.
    - ianai 7y ago
      You’re not the average employee-computer user!
ddoolin 7y ago
I've been driven to the store and told to pick out my own computer and accessories and nobody ever had it in their hands for any length of time other than the employee who carried it to me. This has happened in two of my seven or so jobs. As a counterpoint, however, at another position the boss was indeed spying on us, which wasn't surprising if you worked there for any appreciable time since he was a complete control freak.
- ianai 7y ago
  That’s far from average practice. I couldn’t care less for the obviously non-abusive cases. They’ll never number significantly.

rovr138 7y ago

But not criminal (assuming it’s their equipment).

elbear 7y ago

I've had the same happen to me (and all my colleagues) at my first work place as a developer.