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When Kenna was bought by Cisco I never got a box to ship my laptop back (despite asking repeatedly). Instead the Cisco team bricked all of the laptops remotely.
by tedivm 3y ago
When Kenna was bought by Cisco I never got a box to ship my laptop back (despite asking repeatedly). Instead the Cisco team bricked all of the laptops remotely.
I had only worked there for two months, so this brand new rather expensive laptop was turned into a paperweight for no reason other than to spite as far as I can tell. I still have it in my closet in case they decide we need to return it still (despite it being two years later). Anyways, if Cisco buys a company you're working for my advice is to immediately start looking for a new job.
- red-iron-pine 3y agoBricked like fried? or just can't log-in / OS scrambled / reinstall the OS?
- SOLAR_FIELDS 3y agoOne way to brick if it’s an Apple product is to do an MDM wipe and not disable the activation lock. It would be kind of shitty to just turn the laptops into e waste by not disabling the lock but this is Cisco that the OP mentioned so I could absolutely see that as a reality. After you wipe there’s literally no reason to not unlock the device except spite (if the device is stolen, you obviously don’t want people to be able to sell or use it again so it makes perfect sense not to unlock it). But if it was legitimately used as an employee device then the employer gains nothing but forcing the employee to deal with junk by not unbricking the device