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>Or would you rather have some "corporate spyware" on there doing basic sanity checks for malware, weird access patterns, enforcing a password policy and automa
by Hamuko 3y ago
>Or would you rather have some "corporate spyware" on there doing basic sanity checks for malware, weird access patterns, enforcing a password policy and automatic locking when idle?
The problem with these corporate spywares is that they're designed for the Bobs of the world and I do not consider myself a Bob. When my employer was implementing one of these management nannies to enforce password policies, it would've rejected my password because it didn't have a number in it. However, mine was significantly longer than the minimum, so my password has like 25% more entropy than the minimum mandated.
If my employer trusts me enough to let me set up new AWS environments and secure our production databases, maybe they could trust me to secure my work laptop too. Different courses for different horses.
- theshrike79 3y agoYeah, these are the standard big corp problems. I've been in situations where programmers are forced under the same rules as random office workers. Like no admin permissions on their own laptop. If you need to install something, you had to call IT and they'd give you an admin account that was active for 30 minutes or something. It was extremely fun when I had to test multiple applications and had to do this process many times a day :D
- mistyvales 3y agoNevermind the fact that corporate mandated password changes every three months usually is pointless because the vast majority just change their password from "Password1" to "Password2" etc. Not very hard for a bad actor to identify.