Subj : Re: Privacy is Power: tak
To   : Sean Dennis
From : Kurt Weiske
Date : Fri Sep 10 2021 06:56:00

-=> Sean Dennis wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

 KW> My network team is essentially performing a man-in-the-middle attack on
 KW> any SSL packets leaving the corporate network, and it breaks a ton of
 KW> things.

 SD> Not to sound obtuse but why?  That violates the security priciples I
 SD> know. Why not inspect the packets before the SSL layer?  Is there a
 SD> genuine technical reason for doing something so stupid?

It's old-school, non zero-trust security. They want a monolithic approach, 
putting your defenses into a central firewall like they did in the 2000s, 
and vendors are more than happy to provide.

 SD> At John Deere, they had a BYOD allowance but you had to run their
 SD> software on it to access company data and they had the right to wipe
 SD> your phone via remote if they felt the need to do so at any time, with
 SD> or without notice.

I think most companies have a similar mobile device management policy, as 
well as requiring encryption, strong passcodes, etc.

 SD> That never sat well with me so I carried two cell
 SD> phones.  I really hated that.  I still hate carrying a cell phone and
 SD> I'm tempted to just get a numeric pager.

Oh, that would be fun. Most people wouldn't know what to do with a pager!

I've mentioned before that I liked pager culture. If someone needed 
assistance after work hours, they had to be invested to do so - they needed 
to be available for me to call them back, to explain the issue, and I could 
set expectations on when their issue could be resolved.

Now, someone sends an email at oh-dark-hundred and the game clock starts, so 
to speak, in their head - regardless of how long it'll really take, whether 
or not I have the information I need to proceed, etc.

Then, people started getting cell phones. There were some odd times carrying 
a pager and a cell phone, receiving a page, calling the person back, and 
then asking them to call you to save your minutes.


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