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Rattle189

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I'd like to say hello to the TheWindowsForum community and to say my thanks for the amazing and reliable releases throughout the years, they've helped me and my friends get through high school with that signature ThumperTM tag in the seven seas. Soon to be graduating and earning money so my time with the seven seas may finally come to an end soon as I've slowly begun to purchase my games, software and recently... Windows 11 thanks to my first owned laptop.
 
I'd like to say hello to the TheWindowsForum community and to say my thanks for the amazing and reliable releases throughout the years, they've helped me and my friends get through high school with that signature ThumperTM tag in the seven seas. Soon to be graduating and earning money so my time with the seven seas may finally come to an end soon as I've slowly begun to purchase my games, software and recently... Windows 11 thanks to my first owned laptop.

Welcome Rattle189! ;) :D
 
I'd like to say hello to the TheWindowsForum community and to say my thanks for the amazing and reliable releases throughout the years, they've helped me and my friends get through high school with that signature ThumperTM tag in the seven seas. Soon to be graduating and earning money so my time with the seven seas may finally come to an end soon as I've slowly begun to purchase my games, software and recently... Windows 11 thanks to my first owned laptop.
The end of that story, the beginning of an entirely new journey. As must as I loved school ( I left the university kicking and screaming), it's a big world out there with many, many choices. Keep your laptop at your side, no matter what you encounter it will still be there waiting for you. As an admin for a couple of business let me warn you one thing. Don't ever, ever mess with your work system should your job issue you one. I know the temptation will be there, been there done that. It's usually not that hard to defeat whatever was installed on your system to prevent tampering. Just don't, I have seen multiple people fired for just such a thing, not my me, but by my superiors. Keep that in mind.
So Please Remember This:
Don't install anything on your company system without your admin's approval, no wares or games, nothing. I have been called out by our 3rd party security provider for installing a network IP scanner (Advanced IP scanner) and accused of plotting to hack the network. (I was trying to map out the network as I was charged by my boss to do).
Forget anything about gaming on your company's hardware or network. As addicted to some of you get to gaming (I am not thank goodness), it's almost a sure way to get fired for wasting company time and abusing the network. I am 100% serious about this.
Admins love to go through randomly go through browsing history. Surfing pron or too much playing around will get you in deep doo-doo.
Nothing you do on a company network resource is invisible. That goes for your phones and anything else that can pull an IP off of the company network. VPNs do nothing to mask your LAN activity no matter what the destination.
Personally, I bought a 10" 5G tablet and use my carrier for data. The tablet travels very discreetly and can be hidden. I always had a job that had a private office. I don't know what I would do if I was assigned a cubicle (at my last job they called them "Cells").
During the pandemic with everyone working remotely, middle management went nuts since they had virtually nothing left to do. All types of employee’s surveillance programs were developed and are now in place. Management can probably generate a pie chart of how many times you farted vs avg company flatulence last week, no kidding. It gives them something to present during those weekly company meetings so it appears they did something. In this case flatulence occurrence vs weekly production output. It's true middle management, shift leaders, etc. do stupid crap like this and get paid handsomely for doing so.
Just before I was laid off until they saw the price tag, management wanted to be able to visually surveil virtually every nook and cranny of the plant except the rest facilities, with a minimum of a week’s history storage. They used the excuse to cover the company should an injury be faked. I laughed at first and then started designing the infrastructure to support such a thing. They didn’t believe my numbers and called in a contractor. There bid was twice the number that I provided them. I think that’s about as far as it went.
If all this sounds like the CIA, NSA or KGB, well nothing is private anymore, get used to it and act appropriately. It’s 2024 in a post pandemic world.

I really don't mean to preach to you members and friends. I just wanted to give you a perspective from the other side of any new employer you will have.

So good luck Rattle189. ThumperTM is a pretty amazing guy, isn't he. Thanks for letting him know how much you appreciated his work, that doesn't happen nearly enough.
 
The end of that story, the beginning of an entirely new journey. As must as I loved school ( I left the university kicking and screaming), it's a big world out there with many, many choices. Keep your laptop at your side, no matter what you encounter it will still be there waiting for you. As an admin for a couple of business let me warn you one thing. Don't ever, ever mess with your work system should your job issue you one. I know the temptation will be there, been there done that. It's usually not that hard to defeat whatever was installed on your system to prevent tampering. Just don't, I have seen multiple people fired for just such a thing, not my me, but by my superiors. Keep that in mind.
So Please Remember This:
Don't install anything on your company system without your admin's approval, no wares or games, nothing. I have been called out by our 3rd party security provider for installing a network IP scanner (Advanced IP scanner) and accused of plotting to hack the network. (I was trying to map out the network as I was charged by my boss to do).
Forget anything about gaming on your company's hardware or network. As addicted to some of you get to gaming (I am not thank goodness), it's almost a sure way to get fired for wasting company time and abusing the network. I am 100% serious about this.
Admins love to go through randomly go through browsing history. Surfing pron or too much playing around will get you in deep doo-doo.
Nothing you do on a company network resource is invisible. That goes for your phones and anything else that can pull an IP off of the company network. VPNs do nothing to mask your LAN activity no matter what the destination.
Personally, I bought a 10" 5G tablet and use my carrier for data. The tablet travels very discreetly and can be hidden. I always had a job that had a private office. I don't know what I would do if I was assigned a cubicle (at my last job they called them "Cells").
During the pandemic with everyone working remotely, middle management went nuts since they had virtually nothing left to do. All types of employee’s surveillance programs were developed and are now in place. Management can probably generate a pie chart of how many times you farted vs avg company flatulence last week, no kidding. It gives them something to present during those weekly company meetings so it appears they did something. In this case flatulence occurrence vs weekly production output. It's true middle management, shift leaders, etc. do stupid crap like this and get paid handsomely for doing so.
Just before I was laid off until they saw the price tag, management wanted to be able to visually surveil virtually every nook and cranny of the plant except the rest facilities, with a minimum of a week’s history storage. They used the excuse to cover the company should an injury be faked. I laughed at first and then started designing the infrastructure to support such a thing. They didn’t believe my numbers and called in a contractor. There bid was twice the number that I provided them. I think that’s about as far as it went.
If all this sounds like the CIA, NSA or KGB, well nothing is private anymore, get used to it and act appropriately. It’s 2024 in a post pandemic world.

I really don't mean to preach to you members and friends. I just wanted to give you a perspective from the other side of any new employer you will have.

So good luck Rattle189. ThumperTM is a pretty amazing guy, isn't he. Thanks for letting him know how much you appreciated his work, that doesn't happen nearly enough.
Thank you for the greetings and the advice. I haven't gotten into a corporate environment yet where I have my own work computer or laptop and I understand that corporations, even if you come from a developing country, still have their rules and regulations about software piracy.

It really is something that the modern world today has almost virtually no privacy left with how connected we are to the internet and how companies spy on you and collect your data and I'm quite aware on how tedious it can be to secure your machine and keep privy eyes away from your data nowadays.

I have witnessed this firsthand with my university's public internet connection where they keep a close eye on who goes in and what sites they visit on their devices and for how long in one of the offices that handle the IT side of things. Of course it's for keeping the public internet access clean and friendly, and also to keep the students from going on their TikToks and whatnot so that the use of the internet is solely for educational purposes.

I'll be sure to keep myself and my internet activity prim and proper when I'm finally working on some company one day.
 
Good advice @Rattle189 . I'm glad you know how the environment is in 2024. Privacy has become a very difficult to achieve now. Worse so much of what we do publicly is scrutinized, allowing us to be categorized and that information sold to the highest bidder. At this point it's more of a land grab without what may be the ultimate response from the individual.
In the same vein, we have become far too willing to provide private information to online sources with a reward we could not receive otherwise. I see you have observed it from both sides now and how "secure" the public Internet really isn't. It never was but now the reprehensible losers looking to turn a quick buck no matter what the consequences have learned how to exploit the Internet. I knew a group of scientists who were in the middle of a research project studying spiders in the wild. Spiders are the epitome of a "wait and prey" predators. So are the current crop of Internet thieves and criminals.
Law enforcement has really had to modify it's tactics and either push the limits of existing regulations or are helping law makers craft new legislation applying to the digital age. Let's hope that tactics and laws can be enacted to punish and force them to compensate for the damages they have caused. Serious penalties for the actors and isolation from Internet resources should be enforced.
The biggest hurdle in dealing with this type of criminal and these crimes is that are they are borderless. The scope of that issue is currently that the Internet criminal exploits are aided by cryptocurrency. It would seem that some sort off world-wide laws and enforcement could be agreed upon in an environment like the United Nations.
The two biggest roadblocks are these. In the old Russia partially due to the fact that Russia and the former Soviet Union always enjoyed there was never reciprocity between them and the rest of the world. In other words crimes committed by their citizens meant they could not be extradited and prosecuted for electronic crimes committed outside their borders. It was rumored their computer degrees were a way to learn sophisticated electronic crimes, a very lucrative profession. The other being the ubnoctious belief that anything the US and it's citizens think is correct and the rest of the world should conform to their values. Over the years I have had many friends in many other countries all over the world. All of them held that same opinion the the US should stop feeling so superior and that all countries should adopt their values. I don't and would like to apologize to all that have been offended by the US's actions.
Don't get me wrong. I live in one of the greatest countries in the world, I love my country. I hope you feel the same about wherever you are from. My country unfortunately is unwilling to listen and emphasize to our neighbors. That would place us at one heck of an advantage against the cybercriminal. Just a thought.

 
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