What software gets added to login when on list and has it been added already for this LR
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Whenever I sign in, my screen flickers like 3 times, I dont think it did that before
@hv+1jk6nfszr, who “owns” my private repos doesn’t matter in that there’s nothing in it but a collection of tips/solutions from Stack Overflow & other sources. It’s all industry best practices or solutions.
Uh ey can keep a copy of it for all I care. But unless they come into my home and confiscate every computer, every flash drive, every backup disk, etc, I probably have a copy somewhere that I can restore it from if they ask me to delete it from GitHub, assuming an arbitration board says I have to.
Last Feb before I was let go, the Monday before I was notified my PC had a couple updates/restarts and acted strange foe about an hour. They obviously put something extra on about 5-7 days before you are notified
I get signed out VPN a lot when my computer goes to sleep, is that common?
Always assume that EVERYTHING you do on your company computer or phone is visible and traceable. If you are looking for a LR package then violation of terms of laptop use is a key reason for withdrawal of package. This has happened to many people who were LR’d.
I can confirm that IT tracks whenever you upload data to your personal iCloud. Recently I got a new laptop and IT's own data migration tool was not working, so I decided to use my personal iCloud and someone from the InfoSec team pinged me right away
Your own employment docs seem perfectly reasonable. Who “owns” your private repos, which are hosted on company resources and maintained by employees during company time though: courts usually favour the employer in those cases. There are countless ways to use code golf + crypto + steganography to exfil. The problem is, they have nothing worth stealing.
I'm sure IT loves me. I have a local Git repo on my Cisco Mac that I store documents where I keep notes, tip & tricks, and how-to steps to perform many "best practice" tips, cheatsheets for command-line interface tools, Unix/Linux environment setup/configuration files, scripts that do basic non-proprietary tasks, etc.
As I make updates, I'll push the changes to my private GitHub repo. If I refresh my system, I just clone it to the new system, copy the environment setup files into my home dir, and I have all the stuff I've built up over the years.
I also frequently download HR documents from Workday and ADP and transfer to a USB drive. I think Cisco would be very hard pressed to convince an arbitration board that my performance reviews, bonus statements, merit increase statements, ESPP and RSU statements and pay statements are "Cisco Confidential" or higher info and that I can't make a copy of them for my personal use after I leave Cisco.
I, and my team, write a lot of (pseudo) code & automation, and we are constantly figuring out how to do some task. It might be something like optimizing a PostgreSQL query, looping through multiple lists, or whatever. If we find a solution on Stack Overflow, I'll create a snippet of our code/automation along w/ the link to the SO solution and save that to my Git repo so I can use it somewhere else. It's not proprietary Cisco code, information, or process.
not sure about you folks but when I quit a job its usually because I want to run away from the code, not take it with me!
I use an un/self-managed linux dev box and have zero desire to exfiltrate Cisco code...indeed I count the minutes each day until I can stop looking at it
As a manager of someone who was LR'd and was copying stuff to their Cloud Storage...don't do this
BS. I upload files to non company cloud and usb all the time. So did most of the people I knew that got LRd. And they did so right up to their last day. More scare tactics by you low level worms who are trying to sow dissent in our great Cisco family.
It’s installed on all employees laptop now. It tracks copying files to USB or online storages as steps in preventing intellectual theft. If you copy, IT will block any Internet access until you go through steps of removing transferred files. Don’t mess with legal, and risk loosing your job without severance payments. This is darn serious stuff chap.
Oh, TXQR is detectable now too.
It's already installed and running on all laptops. It's used to detect exfiltration (theft) by attempting to offload company property to USB drives or Google drive. It has a kernel module component so you can't even see the process or kernel module since it hooks certain system calls.
Don't steal sh-t.
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