alt Hacker NewsIt's a pain that when you cannot do what you want to do. But it's not your laptop. It's the company's.
But it is my craft, and to be limited to what tools I can use in my craft can decrease the value of my work, and in doing so decrease the company's productivity.
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alt227 • yesterday at 11:30 AM
> But it is my craft
Then go work for yourself.
If you want the security of a regular salary, you need to jump through the hoops of your employer and not expect to be able to do 'your craft' however you see fit.
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Let's say you earn a million dollars a year (most of us earn far less). At quite a few companies, a 50% decrease in your productivity (and changing browsers is nowhere near that) would cost the company significantly less than dealing with the fallout of any of the following:
* A user intentionally leaking sensitive documents outside the corporate network
* A user installing an infected browser extension that gives attackers access to corporate resources
* A user accessing malware or ransomware which infects corporate resources.
That's on top of the cost of having the IT department having to debug issues among users with bespoke tool sets which can often interact in unintuitive ways.
There are many stupid ways that companies "optimize" costs that cost them more in the end. Standardizing the browser and extension set for data loss protection is not one of them.