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Re:Ask HN: My client want an agent on my laptop. Is this the... by jameshart on Friday December 17, 2021 @08:11AM (#29591622)
But you’re the one describing a piece of software they are asking you to install as a condition of employment as a ‘hostile agent’.

Feels like the layer of cynicism is already there.

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Re:Ask HN: My client want an agent on my laptop. Is this the... by illud_tempus on Friday December 17, 2021 @10:52AM (#29593827)
Not on my part. Not with the people in the company I usually deal with.

When a new manager I don't know send me an email to install some "agent" from a company I have never heard about, and that company turns out to have terms and conditions from hell (like references to undisclosed terms and conditions they want me to accept) - then I label that thing, in my mind, as a "hostile agent". It's not something that will ever get access to my lan. It's something I don't even want in a VM, because it may know how to escape from a VM.

That's not cynicism. That's risk assessment.

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