Re:When Employees Use Software That IT Hasn’t Approved
by maxxxxx on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @09:43AM
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I have a WiFi router hidden so we can do some specific network testing. We also have a consumer DSL line so we can test on a network where IT doesn’t block random stuff. It’s not even much of a secret. Everybody local knows this stuff and every six months a guy at IT headquarters throws a fit, doesn’t provide an alternative and gets ignored. I have thought about sending them recordings of previous meetings so we don’t have to repeat the series of same meetings every six to twelve months.
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Re:When Employees Use Software That IT Hasn’t Approved
by miahi on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @10:57AM
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We had the same kind of "hidden" router at my previous employer, as we had a team of ~10 developers who needed a lot of different access to different servers and between eachother. We put the name of another tenant in the office building as the SSID :).
After about a year the network through that router started to slow down. When we checked why we realized that we had more than 40 wifi clients, as other (non-dev) teams learned about the network through the grapevine and actually the new employees from sales (the neighboring office) were told to connect to that network directly - as the process to connect to the "normal" network was too much of a hassle.
Re:When Employees Use Software That IT Hasn’t Approved
by maxxxxx on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @11:05AM
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The funny thing is that after a recent remodel the router got moved and we don’t know where it is. It still works but nobody knows the exact location. It may be in the ceiling or the floor.
Re:When Employees Use Software That IT Hasn’t Approved
by geggam on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @11:29AM
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LOL
reminds me of a very old bash.org
Re:When Employees Use Software That IT Hasn’t Approved
by pickle-wizard on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @04:00PM
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That reminds me about the story of a University that an old DEC VAX that got walled up during a remodel. Machine kept running and no one notice. A decade later another remodel came along and they tore down the wall to find the machine just happily running.
Re:When Employees Use Software That IT Hasn’t Approved
by antod on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @07:35PM
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I remember an old Netware version of that story.
Re:When Employees Use Software That IT Hasn’t Approved
by pickle-wizard on Thursday June 20, 2019 @02:31PM
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You know, maybe it was Netware. My memory has some bitrot in it after all these years.