Comment by Jean-Papoulos
1 month ago
Absolutely not, the company laptop will be locked down and you won't be able to install your own OS.
1 month ago
Absolutely not, the company laptop will be locked down and you won't be able to install your own OS.
yeah i was a little confused by the suggestion. If a client hands you a laptop to use for a project then there's corp. policy reasons why you have to use it as a contractor. (some companies have serious teeth in these policies)
It would be interesting to be a fly on the wall and listen in when infosec calls you and asks why your laptop disappeared from their monitoring tools and you told them you installed nixos (assuming that would even be possible) because that's what you prefer.
I think there are ways around this, you can always request a separate internet line in your work area, or slap a firewall between your space and their worklan, turning your workspace essentially into a lab. I mean we could probably take a look at pen testing scenarios, I'm sure you don't limit pentesters to your tools when they come into your workplace right? I wouldn't limit a high cost consultant with my tools. I think the reason companies provide a computer, is more for the benefit of the corporation, we want all code, iterations, and notes left behind, it's our product he/she worked on, how do we know all material was handed in otherwise? It's a very neat way to package all deliverables at the finish line.
Exactly. They don’t want you to just use their hardware. They want you to use all of it.