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Marketing wants to force *everyone’s* homepage for Chrome to be SharePoint. Including the setting that does it for every. New. Tab. Which also gets rid of the normal Chrome startup page that keeps track of your most frequently used sites. People are not gonna be happy with this lol.
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Don't gently caress with people's homepages
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Jun 25, 2020 20:09
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We set homepages via gpo, but don't lock them so people can change them at will if they'd like. Most don't We also don't mess with the chrome new tab page, that's just sadistic
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Jun 25, 2020 20:11
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The Fool posted:We also don't mess with the chrome new tab page, that's just sadistic Note that it was Marketing that wanted it, so that tracks.
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Jun 25, 2020 20:32
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We don’t block much beyond known bad sites, and as a Gmail shop, Google is wide open. I did get a panicked phone call from EntSec once because I spun up an old laptop to rip a CD and dump it on my personal Gdrive, and they noticed a big bandwidth spike and wanted to know what I was up to. Sorry, I didn’t have a CD drive at home, chill. We are in the middle of using GPOs to enforce kosher internet for an office in Israel, which is exactly the shitshow you think it is.
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Jun 25, 2020 20:53
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:We are in the middle of using GPOs to enforce kosher internet for an office in Israel, which is exactly the shitshow you think it is. Took me a sec to register the use of the word with its proper meaning, as opposed to the slang term (i.e. "sounds kosher") - that's....yikes.
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Jun 26, 2020 00:04
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How strict are we talking Like enforced times when they can log in, and something forcing them to log out the moment its the sabbeth? Or "find a way to disable the power button once a week because electricity"
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Jun 26, 2020 00:19
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devmd01 posted:Marketing wants to force *everyone’s* homepage for Chrome to be SharePoint.
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Jun 26, 2020 00:24
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:We are in the middle of using GPOs to enforce kosher internet for an office in Israel, which is exactly the shitshow you think it is. Is kosher internet a government thing or an agreed standard or whatever? I always just figured it would be up to the individual to decide how they wanted to interpret their beliefs.
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Jun 26, 2020 00:35
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Ghostlight posted:They did this in my company as well so I did it then took out the rule that prevented people from changing it. You better believe I’m setting up an exception group to add my computer to and anyone else’s that is in my favor.
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Jun 26, 2020 00:50
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Thanks Ants posted:Is kosher internet a government thing or an agreed standard or whatever? I always just figured it would be up to the individual to decide how they wanted to interpret their beliefs. Super Soaker Party! posted:Took me a sec to register the use of the word with its proper meaning, as opposed to the slang term (i.e. "sounds kosher") - that's....yikes. klosterdev posted:How strict are we talking It's real and it's spectacular. Vice does a better overall breakdown than I could: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8q8k45/kosher-internet-filters tl;dr, there are extremely strict rules that have to be put in place for people who follow a certain sect of Judaism, and it usually involves downloading blocking software that an IT rabbi (I'm not kidding) has blessed and approved. They were using a software package before we acquired them that our EntSec team had some SERIOUS issues with, which is why I know it had a rabbi certificate attached (I know you probably don't like clicking on links, but I've had to visit that site on my work computer umpteen times, so...) Now we're having to figure out how to do it with GPOs based on URLs and yes, that's as terrible as it sounds. I'm not involved because I basically told them this is loving ridiculous and played the religious exemption card on my end (lol), but from the sounds of things in our standups, the end result is gonna be telling them this was a proof of concept, and it failed to make it to MVP, and they're on their own.
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Jun 26, 2020 02:21
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quote:Hillaryclinton.com was blocked because she's a woman. That's quite the filter.
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devmd01 posted:Marketing wants to force *everyone’s* homepage for Chrome to be SharePoint. Dirt Road Junglist posted:It's real and it's spectacular. Vice does a better overall breakdown than I could:  ) to find that someone had laid some concrete stairs, and they had to be ripped out because they'd make the whole building not kosher. They also used to get to leave work at like 3PM on a Friday and head to the pub because the rules weren't written to take heading that far north into account.
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Jun 26, 2020 04:30
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:We don’t block much beyond known bad sites, and as a Gmail shop, Google is wide open. I did get a panicked phone call from EntSec once because I spun up an old laptop to rip a CD and dump it on my personal Gdrive, and they noticed a big bandwidth spike and wanted to know what I was up to. Sorry, I didn’t have a CD drive at home, chill. well that's just fascinating actually
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:It's real and it's spectacular. Vice does a better overall breakdown than I could: This reminds me of a thread back in the archives of Ask/Tell from an ex-Haredim [Haredi Jews are strict Orthodox, and Haredim include Satmar, Chabad Lubavich, and Hasidic groups], that had a current-but-considering-leaving Haredi register to post about their situation in an insular and strict community. It was a fascinating thread and I always wondered what happened to the current-but-wavering Haredi when they stopped posting. ChickenOfTomorrow fucked around with this message at 06:23 on Jun 26, 2020 |
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Jun 26, 2020 06:16
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Arquinsiel posted:Are you able to tell Marketing to gently caress themselves? Because you really should be able to tell them this, especially now. I emailed my boss, he’s gonna take it to to the CIO and hopefully this gets squashed.
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Jun 26, 2020 11:56
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Someone in sales has been asking people to email scans of their passports into our helpdesk and people did as requested 
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Jun 26, 2020 12:11
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The Fool posted:We set homepages via gpo, but don't lock them so people can change them at will if they'd like. We set the homepage to our intranet site, and lock it so it cannot be changed. But only on store computers. (90% of our machines are located in retail stores and shared use) Corp. office has no such restrictions.
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Jun 26, 2020 13:45
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My condolences that you work for a retailer. I started my career and did 7 years at one, and thankfully moved to a new job three years before it imploded and liquidated. It certainly opened my eyes to how the rank and file out in the field were treated vs. corporate.
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Jun 26, 2020 14:22
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Having done security for a number of orgs that had retail arms I was amazed to learn how determined employees can be to introduce malware to the network via the tills.
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Jun 26, 2020 14:34
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Arquinsiel posted:Having done security for a number of orgs that had retail arms I was amazed to learn how determined employees can be to introduce malware to the network via the tills. When I was in retail management I was entrusted with the super secret exit to desktop password for the tills which was...1. That's it. The number 1.
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Jun 26, 2020 14:39
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Thanks Ants posted:Someone in sales has been asking people to email scans of their passports into our helpdesk and people did as requested Asking other employees or asking customers? Why does Sales want passports in the first place? Or is this some hijacked email phishing thing?
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Jun 26, 2020 14:57
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Looks like one of the vendors that we sync data with has decided to unilaterally update some of our key integration IDs then send those records back to us. This has understandably resulted in problems.
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Jun 26, 2020 15:05
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devmd01 posted:My condolences that you work for a retailer. I started my career and did 7 years at one, and thankfully moved to a new job three years before it imploded and liquidated. I'm glad to work for a very successful retailer that is family owned. (hardware/home center/lumber type stores). We don't have the typical dichotomy between corp. vs store employees you see in much larger retailers, thankfully. Started outta high school and still here going on 20 years. Hell I'll probably retire from here.
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stevewm posted:I'm glad to work for a very successful retailer that is family owned. (hardware/home center/lumber type stores). We don't have the typical dichotomy between corp. vs store employees you see in much larger retailers, thankfully. Started outta high school and still here going on 20 years. Hell I'll probably retire from here. Please share your time machine technology since you are obviously posting from no later than the 1970's
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Jun 26, 2020 16:48
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this data extract has been running for an hour now and there's only so many other things I can do while I wait on it before it looks like i'm goofing off
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Jun 26, 2020 17:01
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Deuce posted:Asking other employees or asking customers? Why does Sales want passports in the first place? Or is this some hijacked email phishing thing? This is their way of getting information to credit check people, totally counter to actual policies
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Arquinsiel posted:Having done security for a number of orgs that had retail arms I was amazed to learn how determined employees can be to introduce malware to the network via the tills. This, so much this. I wasn't security, but Desktop Support. You can't give them an inch.
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Jun 26, 2020 17:45
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The Fool posted:Please share your time machine technology since you are obviously posting from no later than the 1970's There are still some companies out there with morals that treat employees well. Not many, but they exist. Which is why I've stayed right where I'm at despite other job offers. Money isn't everything.
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Arquinsiel posted:Having done security for a number of orgs that had retail arms I was amazed to learn how determined employees can be to introduce malware to the network via the tills. When I was at university, I worked a night shift in the summer manning the front desk in the residence halls we rented out for conferences and visitors. The desk computer had been sorta locked down against malware, but this was 2003 or so, and lol Windows. I knew enough to swamp it out on my own, but without admin rights, I couldn't get very far. I got mad about 3am when someone installed a browser bar for some Flash game that completely turbofucked the computer, so it was time to email my boss. It being 3am, and me being me, I wrote an informal and colloquial list of what needed to be told to our employees to keep things from getting worse before fall. I said not to send it out until I'd had a chance to sleep on it and make it sound less, "STOP CLICKING OKAY YOU DUMBSHITS," because I thought it was too blunt. When I woke up, she'd not only replied to thank me, but she'd sent the unedited instructions to the entire department. And also the director of the student and staff IT department. As I sat there, feeling a panic attack start to creep up my spine, I noticed another unread email. From the IT director. Offering me a job, because she liked my style. (A bunch of my co-workers did think I was a dick, tho, but whatever. They had bad taste in games, so gently caress 'em.)
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Back in the summer of wannacry I got a store till taken off the network and the IT team actually hauled it into HQ for forensics work, and somehow the store found out I was the person who spotted the malware callbacks so I got angry emails from some shitlord about taking his favourite till away. I just passed it up the chain because that org actually took poo poo seriously.
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:this data extract has been running for an hour now and there's only so many other things I can do while I wait on it before it looks like i'm goofing off I know it’s after the party but: Print out a copy of a switch confine file. Or a spreadsheet of something, or a bit of code. Hold the papers in your hand and walk around the office randomly while stopping to socialize with your friends. No lie, people will see you with papers in your hand and think you are doing legitimate work. I used to use a loop of bootlace and a sharpie as an improvised lanyard to get backstage at shows. It’s the same principle. People see the prop and assume legitimate intent.
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Darchangel posted:This, so much this. I wasn't security, but Desktop Support. You can't give them an inch. If it isn't random malware because they can't treat a work computer as, well, a work computer, it's their phone addictions. Ask me about the time I drove 200 miles in the middle of the night to "fix" a printer that was "broken" because some selfish poo poo had unplugged it to charge their phone. Actually, no need to ask me, because that's basically the whole story.
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Agrikk posted:It’s the same principle. People see the prop and assume legitimate intent. A clipboard effectively makes you invisible. Even a notebook if you have a pen out. A buddy of mine and I went to the Great American Music Hall in SF for a show and they had the upstairs chained off. We hopped the chain, went upstairs and found a table with a good view of the stage. We dropped a couple of notebooks and pens on the table and waited for the show. A waitress came up to kick us out. Before she could say a word we ordered a couple of martinis. We got the martinis.
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mllaneza posted:A clipboard effectively makes you invisible. Even a notebook if you have a pen out. Glorious.
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larchesdanrew posted:A job came in That is fantastic! Congratulations!
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end the thread on a high note, that's great. dm me about where we're going 
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Arquinsiel posted:Having done security for a number of orgs that had retail arms I was amazed to learn how determined employees can be to introduce malware to the network via the tills. 10 years ago before I got a Real Job I used to read this very thread (or one of its progenitors) on the POS at the coffee shop I worked at
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For anyone that's left after the Lowtaxodus, got a question. If you're doing sysadmin or engineering work, how much of your job is cloud-related (excluding O365 email administration)? I'm thinking that my next move might put me back into operations (presently Azure engineering) and I'd like to ensure I'm at least still doing some work with Azure to stay current. Most of the open roles I'm seeing are either all on-prem sysadmin with O365, or all cloud engineering without sysadmin.
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MJP posted:For anyone that's left after the Lowtaxodus, got a question. If you're doing sysadmin or engineering work, how much of your job is cloud-related (excluding O365 email administration)? I'm thinking that my next move might put me back into operations (presently Azure engineering) and I'd like to ensure I'm at least still doing some work with Azure to stay current. Most of the open roles I'm seeing are either all on-prem sysadmin with O365, or all cloud engineering without sysadmin. Azure/AWS engineering is not a common sight for small to midsize business, the most cloud you are going to see there is office365/google cloud service management, aws/azure are expensive so you are likely to see it mass deployed in bigger firms(or fat stacks startups). I mostly get involved in midsized SMB so it's usually VMware hosts running vms for weird software while general purpose services (email/intranet/etc.) are outsourced to microsoft/google. It honestly depends on how you want to end up, i honestly prefer smaller firms, less cash but you feel less of a unnamed cog. SlowBloke fucked around with this message at 15:33 on Jun 30, 2020 |
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