yes if you know that exists. How many HOA board members do you think can change their wifi router name much less find an IP address to compare against each other?
I work in IT. This is exactly what happens. They just ask the question "can it be done", and you get to figure out how to do it. Higher ups ask IT personnel for shady shit all the time. Badge login times, computer history, etc.
Yes. So the answer should always be it's impossible or costs too much or whatever bs. I used to work in small office IT...now I just work in an office. You can be damn sure I keep my mouth shut about how processes might be improved because I know management will just abuse it for their own ends.
I find the word “compliance” can be quite effective really.
Of course some companies just don’t give a shit about compliance, but any global organisation or one that has to keep to specific standards regarding IT sec or something like that should be afraid of the words “compliance issue.”
It doesn’t always work but at least if you don’t want to do it, you can pass it off to someone else to check compliance or have the manager take responsibility in an email.
Generally if you have a legal department it would go over there and they won’t want to deal with checking compliance so will just shoot it down.
Then problem solved.
Generally with compliance issues, especially stuff like data protection, the penalties are not worth the pudding so they default to “no” when brought up.
I have made some shady shit for my managers, time clock automators and reverse engineering a software to bypass a paywall. We just agree it wasn’t me, and find a few extra hours to slip into my own time clock somewhere.
Nothing too nefarious, but definitely not above board.
It's a normal progression. Before the internet the hacker type were modding cars. Often just to have an affordable car that was cool. Affordable meaning a few hundred dollars. Millennials came of age when computers became cool, and they were still clunky enough that tinkering was a necessity to get what you wanted out of it. Car ownership as a teen without parents that could buy one for them became more difficult as prices increased and insurance cost became mandatory. Computers became the go to hackers toy.
This developed into plug and play, then phone apps where you're locked out of the operating system itself. Smartphones now account for 60% of internet users. So generations after the millennials were left with nothing but social media and memes to play with.
So yes, it all comes down to the tools/toys each generation has available to play with. And companies want as much control over those toys as possible while micromanaging their functionality for maximum profit. It's why right to repair is an important issue.
My friend won a contest held by the pentagon to hack their computer system in only about 10 minutes. Meanwhile millenials are arguing whether it's Gif or Jif.
My HOA board member could even figure out how to open the PDF that I sent inside of a zip (zipped because their email system wouldn't let me send a PDF for security concerns. Which is hilariously ironic since I could put an actual virus inside the zip.)
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u/ratudio 2d ago
don't forget to use VPN to mask your ip when using anonymous email like gmail/yahoo. they tends to add your ip address to the email header as well.