It's something of a balance, but if I went back to college (i.e. to become a lawyer) and somebody started port scanning my machine I would consider it a hostile act if it weren't clearly stated in the AUP. Even then I wouldn't be pleased. Of course, I'm one of those people who maintain their own firewall and do NAT for the rest of the boxes.
If it weren't stated in the AUP the first call would be to the campus network administration staff and escalate from there. I mean really, it could be some punk kid on the LAN just looking for a machine to compromise for a DDOS attack.
Yes, I was an english major but that was partially because I only took computer classes to make sure my GPA was high.:-)
I guess that the problem is whether you really need the job and how much integrity you're willing to sacrifice. I've gone over the heads of my direct supervisors and won several times. I've also done the similar things and lost. My average is about seventy five percent winning. I didn't make any friends except with the end users and other engineers by doing this. However, all of my successes happened by talking one on one with the management. Don't make high level management feel stupid in front of other people. That's sure to create animosity.
I wonder why they are doing a group event unless they're looking for excuses to reduce the head count. I hope I'm not being too cynical but...
Does anyone else remember the two button ADB Kensignton Turbo Mouse for the Mac? Those things were great! They were much better than the trackpad I'm currently using the trackpad on my powerbook.
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It's something of a balance, but if I went back to college (i.e. to become a lawyer) and somebody started port scanning my machine I would consider it a hostile act if it weren't clearly stated in the AUP. Even then I wouldn't be pleased. Of course, I'm one of those people who maintain their own firewall and do NAT for the rest of the boxes.
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If it weren't stated in the AUP the first call would be to the campus network administration staff and escalate from there. I mean really, it could be some punk kid on the LAN just looking for a machine to compromise for a DDOS attack.
Yes, I was an english major but that was partially because I only took computer classes to make sure my GPA was high.
I guess that the problem is whether you really need the job and how much integrity you're willing to sacrifice. I've gone over the heads of my direct supervisors and won several times. I've also done the similar things and lost. My average is about seventy five percent winning. I didn't make any friends except with the end users and other engineers by doing this. However, all of my successes happened by talking one on one with the management. Don't make high level management feel stupid in front of other people. That's sure to create animosity.
I wonder why they are doing a group event unless they're looking for excuses to reduce the head count. I hope I'm not being too cynical but...
Does anyone else remember the two button ADB Kensignton Turbo Mouse for the Mac? Those things were great! They were much better than the trackpad I'm currently using the trackpad on my powerbook.
This editorial [0] by Andrew Grygus might give your grandfather some of the information he needs to convince the board.
[0] http://www.aaxnet.com/editor/edit029.html