Post AINcWN7LAXXL6mppBY by tthbaltazar@chaos.social
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(DIR) Post #AINbq3SBt751xaPQNk by evelyn@misskey.bubbletea.dev
2022-04-12T17:22:56.225Z
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company is trying to force us to install their 'endpoint protection' malware on the company laptops, I kinda need to work out how to isolate this computer from the network before I'd be happy doing that though
(DIR) Post #AINc2m2bwGQdijVdYG by evelyn@misskey.bubbletea.dev
2022-04-12T17:25:13.648Z
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among other wonderful things, the software in question apparently scans the local network! not a fan of that idea, to put it mildly
(DIR) Post #AINcWN7LAXXL6mppBY by tthbaltazar@chaos.social
2022-04-12T17:29:34Z
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@evelyn not justifying it, it's a horrible mess when it comes to work/life isolation, but why would that be an issue?
(DIR) Post #AINcWNq0UTGXLJjUo4 by evelyn@misskey.bubbletea.dev
2022-04-12T17:30:33.763Z
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@tthbaltazar@chaos.social I don't want it, that's why it's an issue lol
(DIR) Post #AINcbyBEnVprVMKKw4 by helene@p.helene.moe
2022-04-12T17:31:34.490138Z
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@evelyn avast does this too FYI, AV software is terrible in general and I hate it
(DIR) Post #AINcyZ8A66pCTWfA9I by tthbaltazar@chaos.social
2022-04-12T17:31:18Z
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@evelyn but from a technical point, why not just set the firewall to max on everything?
(DIR) Post #AINcyZmveXR0Vxjigy by evelyn@misskey.bubbletea.dev
2022-04-12T17:35:39.773Z
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@tthbaltazar@chaos.social The software they want us to install is functionally a rootkit, sure I can configure a firewall on this machine, but that's not much good when the software also has root
(DIR) Post #AINcyb0R7npkI941Nw by tthbaltazar@chaos.social
2022-04-12T17:31:47Z
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@evelyn is there something I should be afraid of, when it comes to having random things on my network?
(DIR) Post #AINdZGnHEiTiJqOcaG by tthbaltazar@chaos.social
2022-04-12T17:37:29Z
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@evelyn is it a personal device? if so you should ask work to provide a deviceand then put it on the guest wifi
(DIR) Post #AINdZHN55b7O6t9DOK by evelyn@misskey.bubbletea.dev
2022-04-12T17:42:17.973Z
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@tthbaltazar@chaos.social it's a work computer, unfortunately our network has no segmentation whatsoever, and idk a huge amount about networking beyond the sorts of thing a programmer usually knows
(DIR) Post #AINeJkqRq5RsqG2qeG by tthbaltazar@chaos.social
2022-04-12T17:43:59Z
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@evelyn you could get a crappy home router and create an inner network, and because NAT the devices in there would go straight to the internet, and unable to access your regular network
(DIR) Post #AINeJlJA7KPwHJTmPA by evelyn@misskey.bubbletea.dev
2022-04-12T17:50:42.414Z
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@tthbaltazar@chaos.social oh that's actually a pretty decent idea
(DIR) Post #AINfh9rb5RZ33AJ24O by evelyn@misskey.bubbletea.dev
2022-04-12T18:06:08.599Z
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@helene@p.helene.moe yeah not surprising at all
(DIR) Post #AINfi8rMIwcQE5fCfQ by gaige@neue.city
2022-04-12T18:06:19.122041Z
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@evelyn if you have access to the router admin panel, you can blacklist the device from seeing other local ip's from there. i think. its been a while since i messed in my router panel last time :blobcatgoogly:
(DIR) Post #AINfmXphOeVEpzzETw by evelyn@misskey.bubbletea.dev
2022-04-12T18:07:07.195Z
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@gaige@neue.city we've just got a shitty ISP-provided router atm, not much good for this sort of thing