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Finally Caught by Employer – Microsoft Authenticator / Citrix

4 pointsby xyzzy47474 months ago

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ggm4 months ago
There&#x27;s several parts to the story. The first part is compliance to HR policy. I&#x27;m not here to defend either the policy or the breach.<p>The interesting parts to me are twofold:<p>Firstly, the sharing of how to hide your location from your employer, the normalising of &quot;this is how you nomad on the sly&quot; it&#x27;s a subculture all of its own I didn&#x27;t think about but now, clearly &quot;needs to exist&quot; under demand from the sly nomad community.<p>Secondly the ways MFA leaks info, which I found extremely surprising. But then, ops checking on you is now increasingly normal: work mate got called for &quot;excessive SSH outbound&quot; which made him very angry: it&#x27;s his normal day to day working pattern. His laptop snitched on him after an upgrade, and his prior pattern not being logged raised a flag. So, the new MFA told a tale. And, the community says &quot;yea this is how to ensure the MFA device only says what you want it to say&quot;<p>This is all a bit silly. The war on WFH includes a war on digital nomads. Hiding your location is also a bit meh. What if something crops up which rationally needs your real presence at work?