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There are a number of advantages you get by deploying cloud computers instead of physical ones (like laptops), and most have nothing to do with fairness. The ab
by nickff 3y ago
There are a number of advantages you get by deploying cloud computers instead of physical ones (like laptops), and most have nothing to do with fairness. The ability to control what gets installed on them gives you obvious security and performance advantages, as well as allowing you to quickly and easily 'service' the computers (restore them to working order by loading a known good image). Disallowing employees from downloading data to devices in their possession also reduces 'leaks' of sensitive corporate information due to carelessness.
I've never heard of anyone making a 'fairness' argument about sending out laptops, though I wouldn't be surprised if someone somewhere has made it.
- JohnFen 3y ago> The ability to control what gets installed on them gives you obvious security and performance advantage On my work machine (a normal Windows 10 laptop), the company has complete control over what gets installed. If I install something the company has forbidden, they notice, forcibly remove the software remotely, and then send someone to scold me.
- wincy 3y agoAh yeah that happened to me at my first professional job (i.e more than ten devs at the whole company) I needed my 802.11x keys transferred to a new laptop. So rather than ask, I just, you know, downloaded metasploit to rip the private auth keys with mimikatz so I’d be able to copy them! About ten seconds later my laptop mysteriously logged me out… It’s the only time in my career I’ve literally been yelled at. Somehow avoided getting fired. To make it worse they were doing red team pentesting that day so I totally looked like I was hacking the Gibson.