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Yeah. My security team would really have my hide if I tried that. The other day I had a visitor from security come in and scrub all my addons off of my Firefox installation because they hadn't been vetted through IT. They most certainly wouldn't allow shadow slack rooms.

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A place I worked as an information security analyst about 8 or 9 years ago had a policy against various streaming technologies on the corporate network because it often overwhelmed or blinded the security monitoring technology we used back then. Spotify had just launched in the US right around that time and I had to spend a couple of days visiting various desks and asking the employees to stop streaming on the corporate network.

We were just completely and utterly blind as soon as two or three people started streaming.

> The other day I had a visitor from security come in and scrub all my addons off of my Firefox installation because they hadn't been vetted through IT.

They can't do that remotely?

I’m compressing time a little for my story. This was last year before the lockdowns. He probably could have done it remotely. But we never missed an opportunity to talk about nerd stuff. He was definitely a talker.

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