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Not that you guys need the reminder, but your work sees all your browser history and you may not even be able to delete it if you wanted to (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by t0fr@lemmy.ca to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social 39 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I used TOR at work once, to download some RPMs. Corp IT had a fucking meltdown

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 21 points 1 year ago

I can't imagine why

[–] gowan@reddthat.com 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

RPM in this context means what?

[–] Rescuer6394@feddit.nl 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i think they are a package of some distribution.

like .deb for Ubuntu or .exe for windows.

[–] mishimaenjoyer@kbin.social 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

RedHat Package Manager

[–] gowan@reddthat.com 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you

[–] NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

Actually it’s Raunchy Porn Movies

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

We’re not cool enough to know

[–] library_napper@monyet.cc 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I worked in security and trained all our staff on how to use Tor. Good data hygiene is important around the office.

Also Onion Share is the best way to securely share large sensitive files between users

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hmm, no Onionshare is for anonymity, Wormhole or Syncthing are good for security, anything AES basically. You are simply using random Tor servers to share files withing a company...

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why would you download RPMs from a browser, to a work PC, and do they use RHEL?

[–] NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Some of our servers used RHEL, and were airgapped, so I had to use TOR because they blocked the site (rpm.pbone I think)and then sneakernet that shit.