illud_tempus

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by illud_tempus 5y ago
> We need an online list of firms that request this May be we need a general rating list for software vendors.
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by illud_tempus 5y ago
I don't want to punish them for being stupid. I want them to not be stupid :) I like the challenges I work on. I work with very smart people. The managers I know well are mostly good people. But the company is growing fast, and there a
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by illud_tempus 5y ago
> We will fail as we have failed so many times in the past but still we must try. This is a thing the unions would have exterminated in the past. Problem is, most developers are not in a union. There is still the choice to "just say
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by illud_tempus 5y ago
They have an exclusive clause, so at the moment I work only for them (and on a few open source projects). Legally I work for a company in the EU which I own. They are willing to pay for a decent laptop. That is not the issue. The issue is t
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by illud_tempus 5y ago
> Rights should not be thought of in terms of their financial cost. Agree!
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by illud_tempus 5y ago
> They are looking for their interests (minimize security breaches) No. This comes from the sales people. They want to provide a "SOC 2 Audited" certificate to their potential customers. They don't give a rats ass about ac
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by illud_tempus 5y ago
Have you been met with such expectations often? I have been a developer for more than 3 decades, and I have never even heard about it before.
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by illud_tempus 5y ago
That's what I do today. One VM per customer, on a pretty decent workstation. My host file system is encrypted. If I install the agent, it will complain about the VM's file system not being encrypted. If I double encrypt, compilati
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by illud_tempus 5y ago
> Soc compliance is not ensured by spying on employees activities That part is clearly Security Theater. Having worked with real security for decades (consulting, training, building server monitoring and alerting tools, building commerci
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by illud_tempus 5y ago
My client is quite reasonable, and is willing to compensate a new laptop. It took me less then a few minutes after I read the mail to come up with algorithms to implement this thing without compromising my security or privacy. VM. Using an
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by illud_tempus 5y ago
So far my strategy is to just ignore it and pray that the problem goes away by itself. If I have to deal with it eventually - quitting is the most appealing option. However, the reason I asked here is to get a feeling about how common thi
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Ask HN: My client want an agent on my laptop. Is this the new normal?
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