alt Hacker News > the IT department gave the other team full access to my production machine
It's not your production machine. It's the company's production machine. Always expect the company to do whatever it wants with its machine, and use the machine accordingly.
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tremon • yesterday at 10:32 AM
That's a geography error on your part. Humans in the EU have an expectation of privacy even on work-issued devices, which is backed by various laws.
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gus_massa • yesterday at 11:02 AM
I have "my" office at the university.
I expect that I can be relocated to another office with a month of advance notice. Also cleanup, fire security check and fixing water leakage while I'm not there.
I don't expect that someone else will provide the keys of "my" office to the biology department when they have to keep a few sheeps during the weekend.
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Yes I understand it's not "my" machine, but it's the dedicated machine my system runs on.
That someone would let an agent run on it at any time, read what's there, and possibly modify the code or stop a process, without even informing me, is what I find problematic, to say the least.