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Re:The Linux Upskill Challenge by igetspam on Saturday February 04, 2023 @09:52AM (#34654902)
If Little Bobby Tables is playing with his new nmap tool, from work and scanning High Security Org, LLCs SaaS range and they see the origin comes from an IP registered to New Corp, they may call New Corps security team. If the security team can identify Bobby as the source, they might fire him for annoying High Security Org because with the initial contact came a Scary Letter with Legal Words.

Sorry Bobby, we can't afford a fight.

It does happen. I could (but won't) tell about similar things happening at FAANGs.

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Re:The Linux Upskill Challenge by 29athrowaway on Saturday February 04, 2023 @11:19AM (#34655544)
They would rather ask you why were you portscanning and what does have to do with you job, and if they have reasons to not believe you or there is a process in place to deal with that, there might be consequences, including termination.
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