Re:Librem Tunnel Is Leaving iOS
by ehutch79 on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @03:54PM
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there are absolutely controls you can turn on for macs that will do that. I have locked down employees computers because they couldn't be trusted.
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Re:Librem Tunnel Is Leaving iOS
by marcus_holmes on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @04:39PM
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I'm always curious about this attitude. Why did you employ them if you felt you couldn't trust them?
People being good at anything else (let's say, accounting) is not correlated with safe/smart computer use habits. If you can prevent a lot of turmoil by not letting them install arbitrary programs and still keep them happy and working well on their main role, why get rid of an otherwise good employee?
I think it's useful to distinguish between types of trust. You might trust a mill operator with $5 million worth of automated equipment that has a well-documented UI backed with years of training and industry support. However, you might not trust that same operator with unfettered control of a $2000 general-purpose networked computing device that can silently leak company secrets and offer a foothold to attackers inside your firewall _even if the operator does nothing obviously wrong_.
Very good question!