An Almost-Secret Algorithm Researchers Used to Break Thousands of RSA Keys

Re:An Almost-Secret Algorithm Researchers Used to Break Thou... by ndnxhs on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @04:01AM (#18919286)

I would leave a company that used an internet blocker. They constantly get in the way of real work and benefit no one. The only valid use case I see is attempting to stop idiots downloading malware and installing it on company computers

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Re:An Almost-Secret Algorithm Researchers Used to Break Thou... by semi-extrinsic on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @05:00AM (#18919549)

In more "traditional" companies that have software dev departments, they are extremely common in my experience, so switching companies wouldn't help much if you're in such a field.

If 90% of the company employees only use IE and MS Word and are actually likely to install malware, and the last 10% are software engineers/data analysts/numerical simulation people, the latter are gonna have to work within/around these types of constraints.

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Re:An Almost-Secret Algorithm Researchers Used to Break Thou... by ndnxhs on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @05:25AM (#18919648)

Part of the reason I dont work at such places. Wouldn't want to be somewhere where I am treated like an idiot.

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Re:An Almost-Secret Algorithm Researchers Used to Break Thou... by semi-extrinsic on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @05:37AM (#18919701)

I guess we all find different optima. To me it's not really being treated like an idiot, it's "we need to have a policy that takes into account that most of the people are idiots, you smart guys work around it if necessary".

I don't know where you work, but off-hand I would postulate that working at "such places" also has advantages over where you work (e.g. better work-life balance, living in an area where property prices are not insane, etc.). As I said, we find different optima in these tradeoffs.

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