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Corp Surveillance

Does anyone else feel like workplace monitring has gone way too far?

Badge swipes logged... VPN activity closely watched. Teams status checked (and tracked). Calendars scanned. Emails parsed... Productivity fu--ing evaluated.... AI note-takers showing up in meetings, nobody asked for them....

Then executives act surprised when morale is awful and people do not trust management. At this point, I assume every company laptop is basically a tracking device that also happens to run work apps.


VPN Issues

Hi - my VPN used to stay connected for about 20 hours. Now, if I go eat lunch for an hour and come back my emails haven’t updated and say no internet on Teams. This will happen after work as well. So basically it will stop connection if I’m away for more than an hour. Anyone else have this issue?


VPN Down, Chaos Up

VPN went out awhile back — word is Charlotte teammates working from home and the “permanent” telecommuters decided to come into the office with their kids in tow (because who needs childcare when you’ve got badge access, right?).

Naturally, it turned into a full-blown security circus

Big thanks to leadership for taking the lesson to heart and rewarding us with a 5-day-a-week RTO in January. Appreciate y’all alpaca-ing us back to the office.


These HSK keys are so stupid

HSK = Hardware Security Key for those that don't know. It's a little USB type device with a fingerprint reader on the top that plugs into the USB-C port. It's quite small and VERY easily losable. Even though "technically" you aren't supposed to leave it in the computer, 99.999% of people do.

The entire "frictionless access" is d-mb. Dell spent all sorts of money on these little HSK keys to be more "secure" but, 99.99% of people just leave them in their computer anyways. They aren't "easier" or more convenient since you have to input your PIN first, THEN put your finger on it. Every place I need to login to that isn't requiring an ADM account, which requires an RSA code, I choose to use just my PIN and sc--w the HSK.

It's faster (JUST the PIN,) one step less and to even use the HSK you literally have to click the option to use it. D-mbest sht I've ever seen so far. If it were fingerprint only and you didnt have to "choose to use the key" then ok, fine.

What a massive waste of money Dell spent on this lol. I'd bet money that everybody's HSK PIN is the same exact PIN they use already. If I had to bet more money, I'd bet that most people's PINs are just their phone number w/o the area code lmfao.

I'm not sure but, unless Dell plans on forcing everyone to use this HSK for logins - with no other options such as a PIN, password, RSA - then wtf was the point in this?