No Stupid Questions
No such thing. Ask away!
!nostupidquestions is a community dedicated to being helpful and answering each others' questions on various topics.
The rules for posting and commenting, besides the rules defined here for lemmy.world, are as follows:
Rules (interactive)
Rule 1- All posts must be legitimate questions. All post titles must include a question.
All posts must be legitimate questions, and all post titles must include a question. Questions that are joke or trolling questions, memes, song lyrics as title, etc. are not allowed here. See Rule 6 for all exceptions.
Rule 2- Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material.
Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material. You will be warned first, banned second.
Rule 3- Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here.
Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here. Breaking this rule will not get you or your post removed, but it will put you at risk, and possibly in danger.
Rule 4- No self promotion or upvote-farming of any kind.
That's it.
Rule 5- No baiting or sealioning or promoting an agenda.
Questions which, instead of being of an innocuous nature, are specifically intended (based on reports and in the opinion of our crack moderation team) to bait users into ideological wars on charged political topics will be removed and the authors warned - or banned - depending on severity.
Rule 6- Regarding META posts and joke questions.
Provided it is about the community itself, you may post non-question posts using the [META] tag on your post title.
On fridays, you are allowed to post meme and troll questions, on the condition that it's in text format only, and conforms with our other rules. These posts MUST include the [NSQ Friday] tag in their title.
If you post a serious question on friday and are looking only for legitimate answers, then please include the [Serious] tag on your post. Irrelevant replies will then be removed by moderators.
Rule 7- You can't intentionally annoy, mock, or harass other members.
If you intentionally annoy, mock, harass, or discriminate against any individual member, you will be removed.
Likewise, if you are a member, sympathiser or a resemblant of a movement that is known to largely hate, mock, discriminate against, and/or want to take lives of a group of people, and you were provably vocal about your hate, then you will be banned on sight.
Rule 8- All comments should try to stay relevant to their parent content.
Rule 9- Reposts from other platforms are not allowed.
Let everyone have their own content.
Rule 10- Majority of bots aren't allowed to participate here. This includes using AI responses and summaries.
Credits
Our breathtaking icon was bestowed upon us by @Cevilia!
The greatest banner of all time: by @TheOneWithTheHair!
view the rest of the comments
Also, you asked 3 completely different and unrelated questions:
#3 could be broken down even further, covering how/when admin is granted, as well as how devices are procured.
At my (large) employer, we absolutely would've told you to pound sand for getting that device outside of official channels and bypassing a security review. Especially since you described it as a data logger.
I thought about this the other day when asking my IT department why they won't let me carry a USB stick between home and work to be able to work from home and instead lock down the USB access and instruct me to use Google Drive instead....
I decided that most corporations only cosplay their IT security inasmuch as it only matters up to and not beyond the point of economic convenience.
If any of these companies truly cared about security, they would at the very least be using a hardened fork of Chrome with Google Services stripped out. They'd be self-hosting their own servers connected only via a VPN or some sort, etc... etc...
But that shit takes money and staff to maintain it. So they'll give everything to third parties to manage instead and then send out pop-quiz emails about phishing every couple of weeks followed by sternly worded emails when a person fails it.
(Sorry...off my anti-depressants until pay day, so I have a lot of micro rants that have built up...haha)
Microsoft and cos security is infinitely better than 99.99% of companies can manage self hosting their own stuff. They give guarantees too.
google drive because of microsoft? what?
and how is the security of google drive better than a pendrive?
https://au.pcmag.com/security/91915/dont-plug-it-in-how-to-prevent-a-usb-attack
This is one of the many reasons you’re not in charge of IT security.
executable files can just as well downloaded from google drive. and if you didn't disable autorun on the system that's on you.
Read my link. Simply plugging in a USB stick can compromise your entire business.