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IT here, Yes, by all means involve me. I will buy a second monitor and plug it into a known box that is no business going anywhere. I will then block, at the network firewall level, any outbound traffic to anything that thing talks to. If it uses its own MAC address at the head end I will then collect and publish every connection that thing tries to make outside to a blacklist and provide it to the public.

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WindyRebel@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Thank you network admin! You’re a hero!

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vithigar@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Sounds way more interesting than most IT work as well. I’d definitely rather do some investigative work like this than a typical parade of password resets, email assistance, and software installations.

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- Emerald@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I had to ask a helpdesk for a 2fa reset once. Interstingly, they didn’t make me identify myself except for first at last name. Not sure what point the 2FA has if it’s that easy to remove.
  
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  - rolaulten@startrek.website ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Depending on the help desk they probably knew it was you. Did you call from a phone HR knows about and is personal to you? If it was a walk up, they make the ticket before or after resetting your MFA?
    
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    Emerald@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    They do have the phone number on record, so I guess that’s what they did. More likely though they didn’t even check. They made no ticket either, just reset it in the course of an around 3 minute call.
    
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- oatscoop@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Hands you a random laptop.
  
  “The thing doesn’t work.”
  
  Refuses to elaborate and leave.
  
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  - linearchaos@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    It and I appear to have the same thing wrong with us. I’m not working on it.
    
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- linearchaos@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Hells yes.
  
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pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
You could also just stick it in a VLAN with no route to other networks.

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- linearchaos@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Easily. I could also simply deny it access to the internet. But sometimes you need to look out for more than just your own.
  
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