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It's actually insane. Work just swapped me in a new laptop, and of course win11 was the image. It's an 8-core xeon. When I'm away from it, it sits at about 8

It's actually insane. Work just swapped me in a new laptop, and of course win11 was the image. It's an 8-core xeon. When I'm away from it, it sits at about 8% CPU. about 2% of that is random company tracking crap. about 6% of that is "windows defender advanced threat protection CE" This thing runs regular expressions against all your files, looking for data patterns the company wants to flag. Not really viruses, but "let's scan this 4GB TCP dump to see if it has a social security number in one of the random byte patterns. I store infrastructure config dumps from huge storage arrays, vmfarms, VIO, etc. lots of stuff to scan. It unzips files. It scans encrypted 7z files. The fan is on low and the laptop is warm when I'm not using the computer. Now thankfully, they just record filenames, make my AC run a more, jack up my electric bill a dollar a month, decrease the life of the laptop by a year, and nothing more. I did a gig at a hospital during covid lockdowns and those guys were nuts. Anything that could be an SSN or patient ID stuff under HIPAA would be blocked from email, blocked from being sent in a web page, and saved in a document after recording the reason in servicethen. Thing like array serial numbers, vendor support case numbers, etc. I thankfully got the h out of there in under a year, but the people there learned to live with it. Support call? That's a call. Need to email something? 7z it, encrypt it, rename the file to .renameToDocx. Vendor emails would get thrown into a bit bucket. Downtime galore. Staff morale non-present. Policies of course set by middle management. When things failed the technical staff and vendors blamed. 2 stars on glassdoor, but mostly from the nurses who got 20 hour shifts and a decrease in pay. Microsoft is not doing anything. They are providing solutions to meet the demand from their customers. Their toxic, incompetent customers who are on a powertrip at work to compensate for lack of control in their personal lives. The creator of bittorrent is not pirating movies.

citrin_ru 3y ago
The problem is many healthcare organizations do have terrible IT security. I've seen a nigerian (419) spam from a hospital employee mail account (confirmed by DKIM and Received, so not a spoofing - a mail account credentials were compromised) and such spammers don't target healthcare - all they need an easy to hack mail account with good reputation. But what I see organizations doing to 'improve' their security is mostly security theater which make work hard for employees and with security crapware which uses 100% CPU monitoring users and 'scanning for threats'. At best a small fraction of what is done actually improves security.

citrin_ru 3y ago

The problem is many healthcare organizations do have terrible IT security. I've seen a nigerian (419) spam from a hospital employee mail account (confirmed by DKIM and Received, so not a spoofing - a mail account credentials were compromised) and such spammers don't target healthcare - all they need an easy to hack mail account with good reputation. But what I see organizations doing to 'improve' their security is mostly security theater which make work hard for employees and with security crapware which uses 100% CPU monitoring users and 'scanning for threats'. At best a small fraction of what is done actually improves security.