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> Common security requirement. Mobile connections tend to have frequently changing IPs. This creates problems with security software that tries to detect anomal
by indrora 3y ago
> Common security requirement. Mobile connections tend to have frequently changing IPs. This creates problems with security software that tries to detect anomalous behavior.
I don't know about your work, but mine actively encourages us to use our laptops from literally whatever network we want. There's some that only ever tether. What set it off was the fact that the device saw no other neighbors -- they stopped complaining as soon as she put a printer on the same network.
> Having video on is a meeting requirement at some companies.
If that was a requirement, it was inconsistently applied. She was singled out.
> doesn’t remember giving them her address
There's no way they could have known the address she was working at since it wasn't listed anywhere; I id bury the lede here a bit: She was on LTE working from a camper in the middle of a forest. None the less, an in-person courier arrived at the *camp site* she was at the next day with a new laptop.
I wish I was being fed exaggerations, because *that would make more sense*. No, the hanlon's razor here is that they ship all their machines with one of the location tracking systems, in this case probably Absolute (the replacement for Computrace).
- intern4tional 3y agoEven that is not sufficient to ship a 2,000 machine there. This is fanfiction or she told them her address and consented to receive the shipment. Delivery companies do not simply take location coordinates to deliver a laptop for a multitude of reasons, including insurance liability. This also may run afoul of privacy regulations etc depending on where she lives.