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.
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.