• Case@lemmynsfw.com
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    21 hours ago

    I don’t disagree. My last job was using winget to update some things. I raised the concept of trusting otherwise unknown updates, but I was pushed aside for the quick utility.

    I’m only a student of cybersecurity, but I harshly judge my former “security expert” on far more than that.

    Like fuck, the help desk has to install every patch, to every machine, through a spreadsheet?

    No, deploy that shit from a server. Fuck.

    In a way, I’m glad I left. In another way, I would really like a pay check again… and I moved to a well, tech illiterate state. Fuck me.

    • mox@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
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      21 hours ago

      My condolences. Unfortunately, people are sometimes designated the in-house expert on a thing just because they seem slightly less ignorant of it than anyone else in the organization. That leaves more than a few people making decisions that impact security and privacy without good understanding or sound judgment in those areas.

      Maybe you should train up and become your state’s new security expert?