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Maybe the brilliant 5D chess move here would have been to download what was needed, then put it on a disc with a printed label. 6D Chess: set up an LLC to do t
by handrous 5y ago
Maybe the brilliant 5D chess move here would have been to download what was needed, then put it on a disc with a printed label.
6D Chess: set up an LLC to do this, and convince the place to buy the discs at significant markup.
- walrus01 5y agoOn a more serious note, when the VP of engineering or CTO or somebody similar takes such a dreadfully ignorant approach, it's a very good indicator that something is more fundamentally wrong and to jump ship. Such a person should be at least capable of understanding the modern concept of how something like a .deb file is authenticated based on its hash from the public gpg keys for the debian package server in question, or the equivalent thereof for redhat/centos.
- sitkack 5y agoThat could get you some jailtime if the org decides you are embezzling, witness poorly done versions of the this same scam.