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Is that to discourage employees from working on personal projects at the office, and/or to discourage them from sending company-owned code outside their corpora
by kyllo 14y ago
Is that to discourage employees from working on personal projects at the office, and/or to discourage them from sending company-owned code outside their corporate network?
- danielweber 14y agoMore the latter. It's probably impossible to stop all encrypted traffic that you can't look at, but you can make it harder for people to do it by stupid or by malware.
- snogglethorpe 14y ago> and/or to discourage them from sending company-owned code outside their corporate network? > More the latter Sooooooo I guess employees have to resort to the old "micro SD card in your shoe" technique... Or just use a tunneling proxy.
- loeg 14y agoYes, getting around it is easy. It's just obnoxious, and adds latency, and application support for SOCKS is shitty, and … I guess I could set up OpenVPN on a VPS or something.
- loeg 14y agoOP here. Actually, their logic is that this way they can scan files for viruses (not kidding). (E.g., from gmail attachments.)
- pnathan 14y agoThis happens at other employers as well; same general rationale.