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> This is not a strange hardening technique at all. On the one hand, I agree. SWIFT recommend (in a similar vein) that machines that you do SWIFT tasks with ar
by rodgerd 3y ago
> This is not a strange hardening technique at all.
On the one hand, I agree. SWIFT recommend (in a similar vein) that machines that you do SWIFT tasks with are segregated from your daily driver last time I read the SWIFT standards; Microsoft recommend locked-down, no-access machines for a lot of AD admin tasks. If you do work in "I can tank a bank" roles, this will sound familiar.
On the other hand, this will also lead to cargo-cult "but Google programmers don't need Internet access, why do you?"
On the gripping hand, perhaps a bunch of Google people being restricted this way will lead to an resurgence in development and documentation practises that don't assume that you can download crap from the Internet all the time. That would be nice.
- dietr1ch 3y agoTBH, I doubt benefits really go outside, "no internet" at $BIGCORP's intranet is not the same as no internet at home. There's internal sites for searching, documentation, code, forums, newsletters, Questions/Answers, chat, calendar, video conferencing, browsing memes, looking at cat pictures and probably more.
- patrakov 3y ago> On the other hand, this will also lead to cargo-cult "but Google programmers don't need Internet access, why do you?" Just a random thought: this coincides with the rollout of Bard. Perhaps the idea is that Bard (or its internal equivalent) is a suitable replacement for sites like StackOverflow?
- greiskul 3y agoGoogle has had internal Stackoverflow for many years already. And so many Google engineers work with Google specific technology, that Stackoverflow is way less useful for them. You are not going to find how to use Borg on stack overflow.
- kccqzy 3y ago> On the other hand, this will also lead to cargo-cult "but Google programmers don't need Internet access, why do you?" To which the obvious reply is, Google already has the whole Internet cached and indexed. If they need to Google something they are only accessing the intranet.