Re:VSCode remote code execution advisory
by adrian_b on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @05:18AM
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Working at a bank and working as a design engineer or low-level programmer have extremely different requirements for a work computer.
My experience, after working in many big and small companies in several countries and multiple continents matches perfectly what the above poster has said, i.e. at least for any kind of design or testing work that involves external hardware, the only way to get anything important done is to circumvent any restrictive IT policies, which are always made by people who might have worked in a bank, so they have no idea about how a computer is used for designing or testing hardware or software for embedded computers.
Most of the work that I have ever done could not be done on company-managed computers, so I usually had to do it on my own computer and transfer then the results to the company computer, which was used only for communication inside the company, through e-mail/Teams/internal file servers etc., and for writing reports or other documents.
My experience, after working in many big and small companies in several countries and multiple continents matches perfectly what the above poster has said, i.e. at least for any kind of design or testing work that involves external hardware, the only way to get anything important done is to circumvent any restrictive IT policies, which are always made by people who might have worked in a bank, so they have no idea about how a computer is used for designing or testing hardware or software for embedded computers.
Most of the work that I have ever done could not be done on company-managed computers, so I usually had to do it on my own computer and transfer then the results to the company computer, which was used only for communication inside the company, through e-mail/Teams/internal file servers etc., and for writing reports or other documents.