@rutee07 I just don't think management understood the risk of using root and didn't want anything done that they could not see.

@asgs we all had to. We weren't allowed another account.

@cyanide6033 yes I had one just the other day, looking for a senior dev for 4k more than I was paid in my first dev position years ago.

I know the UK was/is looking at a similar sort of idea but that one would listen out for signals from the phone and disregard any which also had Bluetooth too. Not sure how feasible it really is. I guess it would also need a human to verify it was the driver using the phone, not another occupant.

Yeah, before my parents retired, their combined salary was less than mine. Thankfully they encouraged me as best they could to go into IT.

And yet we have probably all come across something similar in real code.

Nice, last time that happened to me, I had a new job by lunch time.

Having a mandated OS is bad enough.

@sbiewald this one of those automatic script type of pentesting and I am being asked to allow it on a public facing site. To make matters worse last week the same boss told me I couldn't use my mission script which is on a non internet accessible machine to send files by SSH and https because it didn't sound secure to him.

nothing overly elaborate, just a reaction timer but it has a couple of small extras so it could work alongside standard fencing kit.