Chit Chat

[Anants]

We had those scanners with the Guards in most of our offices back then. But people still used to sneak in things.
I am surprised that many of you don't know the relaxed nature of IT security in Major Indian IT service providers. Everything was open back then but with time it has changed and now it is almost impossible to take anything out with you.
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Sneak things to do what? I mean even if people sneaked USB they would be useless as ports were disabled. I means ports have been disabled since from so long. infact by mid 2k's , systems were in place - if anybody tried to insert USB into a PC - an alert would have gone to IT and IT would have sent escalation to higher ups.

Early half of Y2k decade half - access restrictions could be bypassed by disabling few system files - but that workaround was quickly nixed with more sophisticated access control.

There used to be free access to the big printers (one was present in every ODC) and people used to print out whole books using them. But then they restricted access to printers to the leads and managers only. With time they added limitation of number of prints per person per month. Later Printers were consolidated and allotted single printer per floor.​

Yea that is true. Before Not only before people were printing complete books - you also had few color printers access too. Some People liked colored printouts of chm files (before PDF's completely dominated ebook scene)

 

[Anants]

The Clients I have worked with are majorly US Automotive, Oil and Energy sectors clients only who consider Data as wealth and act like it is the most important thing for them. Even these clients used to very relaxed back then.​

Could be client specific then. Euro, Japs were quite paranoid(automotive, Banking, Heavy engineering, Embedded etc). Infarct some of the US Banks were quite paranoid themselves. But many US clients were quite ok normal layer of access restriction provided by companies. But USB for taking code home - was quite horrifying even early y2k decade.

 

[SKC]

Sneak things to do what? I mean even if people sneaked USB they would be useless as ports were disabled. I means ports have been disabled since from so long. infact by mid 2k's , systems were in place - if anybody tried to insert USB into a PC - an alert would have gone to IT and IT would have sent escalation to higher ups.

Early half of Y2k decade half - access restrictions could be bypassed by disabling few system files - but that workaround was quickly nixed with more sophisticated access control.

All restrictions were there in theory only. Most of the desktops had atleast 1 free port. Even if not then those could be enabled quite easily.
Access to registry were open as late as till 2017-18. Other access could be enabled too quiet easily. By 2018-19 there were third party tools available to block everything.​

 

[Anants]

All restrictions were there i theory only. Most of the desktops had atleast 1 free port. Even if not then those could be enabled quite easily.​

Nahinnn....

Bhai tumne Jannat main kaam kia hai...

Access to registry were open as late as till 2017-18. Other access could be enabled too quiet easily. By 2018-19 there were third party tools available to block everything.​

2017 -2018!? Main jitna quote kar raha hoon woh 2000 -2010 period ke baare main quote kar raha hoon. By 2009-2008 companies were already implementing ISO 27001:2005 and BS something like standards on security.

 

[Screambowl]

@SKC @Anants What about now when people are working from home? Everything must be open. Access to data on server but any one can record the screen with source code?

 

[Anants]

@SKC @Anants What about now when people are working from home? Everything must be open. Access to data on server but any one can record the screen with source code?

Yes with WFH its possible. But Usually product companies have a unique secret code somewhere on the screen. I know a incident - somebody clicked Ui of not released OS to some blog. And the person who shot was identified as from the photograph - showing screen - employee system was identified. Mind you I am not talking bout stickers but code was in the screen hidden somewhere - visible only with some filters.

 

[notaname]

@SKC @Anants What about now when people are working from home? Everything must be open. Access to data on server but any one can record the screen with source code?

It's monitored, and it's not feasible to just record whole codebase and even if recorded you can't send it somewhere else as mail's are controlled to outside, and recording from another camera without using native screen is possible but then you need to be motivated enough and usually codebase is distributed using modules/library in which someone would be working and don't have access to other module/library.

 

[notaname]

@Screambowl And if you think that you can just upload code to GitHub or some other website then those are blocked as well.

 

[Ayan Barat]

So much of tech going on here. For a change...

Imagine abstaining from alcohol your whole life and then finally Chitragupta telling you, why exactly your liver failed.

Btw, if any of you guys are into those stuff...there's video on Twitter
Just saying

 

[Satish Sharma Ji]

No, no such limitation. I have used different combinations of capacity, speed, brand of RAMs in dual channel since ages without any ill effect or problems.

Ohh Bhai u can use any 2 dissimilar ram u want to here we aren't talking about just the use case. There is a thing called dual channel mode which improves performance fasten system.
Which is Basically using 2 same ram in 2x8gb configuration instead of a single 16gb one. This gives better performance than alone 16gb ram.

For this, one need to use exact same models of ram. This doesn't work with dissimilar rams.
It doesn't mean it won't work.

They're are other ways of using 2 dissimilar rams in dual channel mode but it doesn't give much of boost. It doesn't work all the time either.

 

[ArjunMK1A]

The Clients I have worked with are majorly US Automotive, Oil and Energy sectors clients only who consider Data as wealth and act like it is the most important thing for them. Even these clients used to very relaxed back then.​

My mother company, even the Watchman will grill you like CBI for any laptops which don't have company IT Team Stickers.

My Office laptop have tracking software's running to monitor the activity.

 

[Blademaster]

We had those scanners with the Guards in most of our offices back then. But people still used to sneak in things.
I am surprised that many of you don't know the relaxed nature of IT security in Major Indian IT service providers. Everything was open back then but with time it has changed and now it is almost impossible to take anything out with you.

There used to be free access to the big printers (one was present in every ODC) and people used to print out whole books using them. But then they restricted access to printers to the leads and managers only. With time they added limitation of number of prints per person per month. Later Printers were consolidated and allotted single printer per floor.​

What’s ODCs and GDPR?

 

[Blademaster]

So much of tech going on here. For a change...

Imagine abstaining from alcohol your whole life and then finally Chitragupta telling you, why exactly your liver failed.
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Btw, if any of you guys are into those stuff...there's video on Twitter
Just saying

Maid needs to be prosecuted for murder.

 

[Screambowl]

@Screambowl And if you think that you can just upload code to GitHub or some other website then those are blocked as well.

I am not from IT but I was just wondering how will they prevent copying of codes when WFH is all over.

 

[Screambowl]

wow.
brother, there are millions of us outside of India and are doing a lot work in the country we live in as well as in India.

Stop saying such stupid things.

Even in Canada, it is hindus who are standing on the opposite side of Khalis and banging them,
In Australia, same.

So, just learn a bit more before you spew your nonsense.

Imagine if some one said Hindus in India are ..... after every time a murder happens and the hindus rush to police.

The worst thing about this is not just the ignorance but sowing another fault line between hindus living in India and abroad.

if you can't strive to bring hindus together, just STFU and let people who are trying to, do their work.

Han bhai Prasad ji kya ho gaya why getting annoyed?

 

[Prasad]

Han bhai Prasad ji kya ho gaya why getting annoyed?

Stupid posts that divide hindus deserve special treatment.

 

[notaname]

I am not from IT but I was just wondering how will they prevent copying of codes when WFH is all over.

Means?

Normally we can't get the code out of Citrix/Amazon or any other workspace or even corporate provided system so it's not possible to get the code like I had explained in my previous post.

Copy and pasting is not allowed to/from workspaces the clipboard doesn't work.

 

[Screambowl]

Means?

Normally we can't get the code out of Citrix/Amazon or any other workspace or even corporate provided system so it's not possible to get the code like I had explained in my previous post.

Copy and pasting is not allowed to/from workspaces the clipboard doesn't work.

But if some one video records the screen WFH and then uses AI powered tool to just extract the text of the visible code from that video and delete the rest of the video then, wouldn't that go just unchecked?

 

[SKC]

@SKC @Anants What about now when people are working from home? Everything must be open. Access to data on server but any one can record the screen with source code?

You get laptops from companies itself. No company allows office work from personal laptops. In companies laptop everything is controlled these days, no open ports, no admin rights, no access to registry, etc etc.

You have to connect to VPN in order to work on company network. On VPN, they disable access to major non-work related sites. You cannot send more than 256KB data over emails to any personal email. Can not transfer or upload files to file sharing sites.​

 

[notaname]

But if some one video records the screen WFH and then uses AI powered tool to just extract the text of the visible code from that video and delete the rest of the video then, wouldn't that go just unchecked?

Yes but is that feasible will you be able to scan thousands of scattered files and extract the data, it's like finding niddle in haystack.

And for that I have already explained that modules/library are used to hide code from one specific person you will get part code not complete code if it's strategic.