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Lots of weird anecdotes.

Why is the computer unable to be connected to the internet?

Why are you pasting so much code from stack overflow to visual studio?

Cool implementation - should try ultrasonic...

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I used to work for Sophos, the British anti-virus company. We had three networks in the office: green, purple and red. Green was the corporate network that everyone had access to, mostly used to read email in Lotus Notes. Purple was an ad hoc network used by developers for various testing machines. Red was connected to the Internet. A few privileged people had a PC on their desk connected to the red network, but most developers did not. There were a couple of red-network PCs around the office that we could use of we needed to look something up.

If we actually needed to download a file (say, an open source project, or some tutorial or documentation), we'd download it there and run a command that emailed it to us. The email would arrive in Notes with the attachment stripped off for virus checking. Some time later, we'd get another email saying that the attachment had been scanned and was available in another Notes database.

It wasn't the best learning environment.

At least you learned what kind of jobs to avoid.

That seems harsh. It was an anti-virus company. Imagine the mayhem if they didn't have that kind of isolation. Nor is that the most isolated that working environments get, not by a long measure; there exist employers who will destroy your phone if you accidentally bring it to work.

Given the track record of security vulnerabilities in anti-virus products, they clearly put the emphasis on the wrong things.

I think he meant Lotus Notes.

It seems like it was just a story. Like tethering his cell phone would have been a more realistic option also.

Guessing some contractual clause that the device not be connected to any other network.

So he connected it to another network.

One limited to 7 bit ASCII and cut and paste.

That's sufficient: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quoted-printable

If you work in a SCIF or similar office environment you have to place your phone, and other personal electronic devices in a locker before entering the main office.

Setting up a modem to get around an air gap seems like it would violate that.

Maybe he's working onboard a navy ship?

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