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gee said:
I guess what I'm saying is, @fly better let his poops steep in the toilet for a while if he cares about water use.

Maybe him and @APRIL can do some cutesy thing where their poops get flushed together as a couple.
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I'm not sure @fly or any #floridamen should care about water use. They live about 18" above a fuckin' aquifer.
 
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So, were having a minor dispute with our IT group (they seem to forget they work for us)
The company Im with farms out the IT stuff to a 3rd party company
They set up the servers, maintain the pcs yadda yadda
yadda
Problem is, they have the PCs locked down to stupid levels
Cant do anything without an admin password
Delete an icon off your desktop? Password
Install a small app for quick unit conversions? Password
Literally anything outside of normal file saving is locked the fuck out
And theyre non-responsive to help tickets, like if you need something itll be on an order of fucking weeks to even get them to acknowledge it.

So we (the engineering group specifically) are sick of this shit, presented our case to management to get our own admin account so we can do our fucking work. And they are ok with it.

Heres where it gets weird
The IT group, I think, is panicking for some reason, maybe because management will realize what a fucking joke they are, and theyre demanding we sign a waiver before agreeing to give us this account. Then, they sent a standard IT fear mongering email to the upper management to try and scare them out of doing this.

Now, here is my real question.
Suddenly, and for no "real" reason, the manager leading the charge to get us the admin account, his computer becomes infected with a "virus" that randomly opens a page of porn and an audio file plays saying something like "call this # in 24 hours to unlock this PC"
That was pretty easy to make go away, but how easy would it be for an IT guy to make that happen?
It popped up on the guy twice. Hes opened no email files that werent unknown, visited no sites that would be of question, and is not an idiot.

IT guy sabotage or just random bad luck?
 
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Mustard Dispenser said:
So, were having a minor dispute with our IT group (they seem to forget they work for us)
The company Im with farms out the IT stuff to a 3rd party company
They set up the servers, maintain the pcs yadda yadda
yadda
Problem is, they have the PCs locked down to stupid levels
Cant do anything without an admin password
Delete an icon off your desktop? Password
Install a small app for quick unit conversions? Password
Literally anything outside of normal file saving is locked the fuck out
And theyre non-responsive to help tickets, like if you need something itll be on an order of fucking weeks to even get them to acknowledge it.

So we (the engineering group specifically) are sick of this shit, presented our case to management to get our own admin account so we can do our fucking work. And they are ok with it.

Heres where it gets weird
The IT group, I think, is panicking for some reason, maybe because management will realize what a fucking joke they are, and theyre demanding we sign a waiver before agreeing to give us this account. Then, they sent a standard IT fear mongering email to the upper management to try and scare them out of doing this.

Now, here is my real question.
Suddenly, and for no "real" reason, the manager leading the charge to get us the admin account, his computer becomes infected with a "virus" that randomly opens a page of porn and an audio file plays saying something like "call this # in 24 hours to unlock this PC"
That was pretty easy to make go away, but how easy would it be for an IT guy to make that happen?
It popped up on the guy twice. Hes opened no email files that werent unknown, visited no sites that would be of question, and is not an idiot.

IT guy sabotage or just random bad luck?
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Sabotage. As soon as you admin, pull the remote access logs

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Mustard Dispenser said:
Now, here is my real question.
Suddenly, and for no "real" reason, the manager leading the charge to get us the admin account, his computer becomes infected with a "virus" that randomly opens a page of porn and an audio file plays saying something like "call this # in 24 hours to unlock this PC"
That was pretty easy to make go away, but how easy would it be for an IT guy to make that happen?
It popped up on the guy twice. Hes opened no email files that werent unknown, visited no sites that would be of question, and is not an idiot.

IT guy sabotage or just random bad luck?
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I'm with domon, definitely sounds like sabotage.
 
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Mustard Dispenser said:
So, were having a minor dispute with our IT group (they seem to forget they work for us)
The company Im with farms out the IT stuff to a 3rd party company
They set up the servers, maintain the pcs yadda yadda
yadda
Problem is, they have the PCs locked down to stupid levels
Cant do anything without an admin password
Delete an icon off your desktop? Password
Install a small app for quick unit conversions? Password
Literally anything outside of normal file saving is locked the fuck out
And theyre non-responsive to help tickets, like if you need something itll be on an order of fucking weeks to even get them to acknowledge it.

So we (the engineering group specifically) are sick of this shit, presented our case to management to get our own admin account so we can do our fucking work. And they are ok with it.

Heres where it gets weird
The IT group, I think, is panicking for some reason, maybe because management will realize what a fucking joke they are, and theyre demanding we sign a waiver before agreeing to give us this account. Then, they sent a standard IT fear mongering email to the upper management to try and scare them out of doing this.

Now, here is my real question.
Suddenly, and for no "real" reason, the manager leading the charge to get us the admin account, his computer becomes infected with a "virus" that randomly opens a page of porn and an audio file plays saying something like "call this # in 24 hours to unlock this PC"
That was pretty easy to make go away, but how easy would it be for an IT guy to make that happen?
It popped up on the guy twice. Hes opened no email files that werent unknown, visited no sites that would be of question, and is not an idiot.

IT guy sabotage or just random bad luck?
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While lack of response to tickets are dumb, I don't blame them. More than likely, the volume of tickets for your group is going to go up quite a bit because even if you aren't, people are idiots.

edit: Wait, is the the bitcoin ransomware he got? Oh jesus if so.
 
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fly said:
While lack of response to tickets are dumb, I don't blame them. More than likely, the volume of tickets for your group is going to go up quite a bit because even if you aren't, people are idiots.
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Nah, its all simple shit we need to do, install a printer, a new monitor, shit like that. They wont feel any impact. Theyre just being petty children over the whole thing.
edit: Wait, is the the bitcoin ransomware he got? Oh jesus if so.
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No, it never mentioned bitcoin.
 
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Mustard Dispenser said:
So, were having a minor dispute with our IT group (they seem to forget they work for us)
The company Im with farms out the IT stuff to a 3rd party company
They set up the servers, maintain the pcs yadda yadda
yadda
Problem is, they have the PCs locked down to stupid levels
Cant do anything without an admin password
Delete an icon off your desktop? Password
Install a small app for quick unit conversions? Password
Literally anything outside of normal file saving is locked the fuck out
And theyre non-responsive to help tickets, like if you need something itll be on an order of fucking weeks to even get them to acknowledge it.

So we (the engineering group specifically) are sick of this shit, presented our case to management to get our own admin account so we can do our fucking work. And they are ok with it.

Heres where it gets weird
The IT group, I think, is panicking for some reason, maybe because management will realize what a fucking joke they are, and theyre demanding we sign a waiver before agreeing to give us this account. Then, they sent a standard IT fear mongering email to the upper management to try and scare them out of doing this.

Now, here is my real question.
Suddenly, and for no "real" reason, the manager leading the charge to get us the admin account, his computer becomes infected with a "virus" that randomly opens a page of porn and an audio file plays saying something like "call this # in 24 hours to unlock this PC"
That was pretty easy to make go away, but how easy would it be for an IT guy to make that happen?
It popped up on the guy twice. Hes opened no email files that werent unknown, visited no sites that would be of question, and is not an idiot.

IT guy sabotage or just random bad luck?
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Incredibly easy. And even if it wasn't sabotage it should serve as ammunition to show that the IT company sucks a big fat one.

You can prevent simple infections like that with just the built in shit Windows has. If they can't do that with all their stupid adminstrative lockdowns then they're wholly incompetent.
 
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fly said:
While lack of response to tickets are dumb, I don't blame them. More than likely, the volume of tickets for your group is going to go up quite a bit because even if you aren't, people are idiots.

edit: Wait, is the the bitcoin ransomware he got? Oh jesus if so.
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There's a point where security overshadows usability and becomes pointless. You can secure a network without requiring such silly measures.
 
Mustard Dispenser said:
Nah, its all simple shit we need to do, install a printer, a new monitor, shit like that. They wont feel any impact. Theyre just being petty children over the whole thing.

No, it never mentioned bitcoin.
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I get that. But it will take less than a week for someone to install iTunes. And then the Ask Toolbar. And then who knows what.

They're not worried about the things you guys need to do for your job. They're worried about all the other shit you'll do.
 
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my little brony said:
There's a point where security overshadows usability and becomes pointless. You can secure a network without requiring such silly measures.
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None of that stuff seems crazy to me. I'm sure they can delete icons they've created, just not ones in the All Users Desktop folder. And no way does IT want end users installing programs, even if it's something quick and harmless. Sorry @Mustard Dispenser.

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fly said:
I get that. But it will take less than a week for someone to install iTunes. And then the Ask Toolbar. And then who knows what.

They're not worried about the things you guys need to do for your job. They're worried about all the other shit you'll do.
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Well, theyre not giving the admin password to everyone
Theyre making a specific account that engineering will control
Theyre just worried about managment realizing theyre useless
 
fly said:
None of that stuff seems crazy to me. I'm sure they can delete icons they've created, just not ones in the All Users Desktop folder. And no way does IT want end users installing programs, even if it's something quick and harmless. Sorry @Mustard Dispenser.

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No I get that but I'm saying if there's that much lag time for tickets then an alternative solution is called for. Otherwise you end up departments going to management to demand admin privileges and you lose any reasonable control over that segment of the network.

If security is so strict that the users are having to work around it then the security measures become counter productive. Accessibility is just as important as the rest of the triad.
 
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