Re:Show HN: Make your site’s pages instant in one minute
by lucasverra on Sunday February 10, 2019 @10:48AM
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So they asked you you are surfing the web on a insecure protocol that can compromise internal data ?
Couldn't you just say "I just dont use http anymore because this X company data is very valuable to me" ?
Re:Show HN: Make your site’s pages instant in one minute
by dingaling on Sunday February 10, 2019 @12:34PM
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I don't see why it's hard to justify. They are providing facilities for you to perform the work they request, not for your personal benefit.
Invert the scenario: if they told you that you had to do work-based research on your own personal Internet connection, would that be OK? Any overage charges are yours to pay, no compensation.
Of course, had I known about these practices in advance, I would have declined the job offer. But I didn't. I ended up quitting a few weeks later anyway.
IT would monitor all connections from all employees and send a report to upper management with summary statistics, on a monthly basis.
I was told this was the case by a fellow worker during my second day there, so I tunneled my traffic through my home server via SSH. When IT asked me why I had zero HTTP requests, I reminded them that monitoring employees traffic was illegal under our current legislation. Doing this in a university-like non-profit research center is hard to justify.