Re:WeWork isn’t a tech company; it’s a soap opera
by tedivm on Thursday August 15, 2019 @04:11PM
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Every WeWork member has a dedicated account which is tied to their company and badge (which is used for building access). This account is also used for reserving rooms.
Re:WeWork isn’t a tech company; it’s a soap opera
by ghaff on Thursday August 15, 2019 @03:36PM
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Fair enough. Although I'm familiar with quite a few situations where most people just use a single network for wireless (whether employees or guests) and confidential company resources are put behind SSO and/or VPN using 2FA.
Others do have separate networks of course and maybe that makes sense in the case of something like WeWork that probably has more people who aren't employees/paying customers coming in and out and getting on the network than the typical company office does.
Re:WeWork isn’t a tech company; it’s a soap opera
by parliament32 on Thursday August 15, 2019 @04:02PM
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I think the problem is that providing internet access is part of WeWork's core product. It doesn't matter if your accountant's office just has one shitty wifi connection for everyone -- you'd still go visit them even if they didn't have wifi. But literally the entire point of WeWork is renting space to work, with internet. They should be held to a higher standard in this regard, IMO.
For guests you either generate guest account or just have a guest network. We don't care if guests fight over the guest network because there aren't that many of them around at any one time... the problem is that actual WeWork customers shouldn't be fighting over insecure APs.