this post was submitted on 19 Mar 2024
1 points (100.0% liked)
networking
2761 readers
26 users here now
Community for discussing enterprise networks and the ensuing chaos that comes after inheriting or building one.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I work IT professionally.
For the love of all that is still sane in this world, PLEASE STOP. If you are in a building under ANY kind of professional IT organization (government or corporate), there probably is a network access terms of use. If you violate that, many of these ToS have teeth to at minimum ban you from the network. I hope you can get your job done without a computer or on cellular reception (if you still have a job after they find out). Since it's a government site, there may be additional legal penalties for fussing with a government network without authorization. If you think you need us to help you bypass this, you may be needing a lawyer.
If IT is blocking something, they probably have a reason. It might not be a good reason, but it's a reason. Doesn't matter if it is right, it matters what they set in the policy. If you believe the policy is wrong, the correct answer is ALWAYS to submit an IT ticket, then raise an escalation with your supervisor/point of contact with the building if that doesn't work, or HR if neither of the first two options work. In that order. Do not skip processes, do not pass go, do not collect $200. There is a minor exception where you can skip steps of the management chain in certain situations (like going to your boss's boss etc) if such an individual is open to such communication.
Probably the easiest one is to ask IT about the Lemmy instance. It might have gotten blocked by accident, or it didn't show up in whatever domain reputation database they're using. I know my own personal homelab domain got hit with that - reason screen said "potential malware", and when I filled out the lil request exception form with my personal email asking why the domain was blocked for malware and saying I owned the server, turns out that didn't go to our third party network vendor (despite the logo) it went straight to IT and I got called into my boss's office to confirm my story. I confirmed it was me, indicated why I did what I did, and what the domain was used for - it was a subdomain hosting a Minecraft server control panel. Site was unblocked in a manner of hours. The worst thing they can say is no. And if they block reddit or other Lemmy instances afterwards, well, I guess that was against policy. See earlier remarks about policy.
Lastly, and I cannot say this in loud enough text
DO NOT HIDE A PHYSICAL DEVICE ON A NETWORK YOU DO NOT HAVE AUTHORITY TO DEPLOY TO
See paragraph 1 about network access policies. Most forbid this kind of thing. <3 Plus you're just going to get yourself into an arms race between detection and hiding. Please do not the ~~cat~~ network. They will find you. It's not an if it's a when. And the longer it hides there the worse your consequences will likely be when it is found.