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Re:Former Twitter Employees Charged with Spying for Saudi Ar... by icedchai on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @10:42PM (#21470204)
It's not like this at smaller companies. It's anything goes.

I worked at one place that had the development network permanently VPN'd into prod. One day, a developer accidentally configured his local environment to connect to a production queue and database. It was like this for over a week.

A previous company didn't bother with the VPN. They had an AWS environment that predated VPC, so SSH and many other service ports were open to the office IP addresses. And several people's homes, for remote work.

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Re:Former Twitter Employees Charged with Spying for Saudi Ar... by JohnFen on Thursday November 07, 2019 @10:53AM (#21474246)
> It's not like this at smaller companies. It's anything goes.

It depends on the company (as with large ones, apparently). I currently work for a small company, and it is no less diligent about this stuff than the major companies I've worked for.

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