My company (near the top of the fortune 500 companies) has been doing this for a while. They track every file change, intercept all http web connections using MitM attacks, etc.
It causes tons of issues for software development and the production application operations including extreme slowdown of both laptops and servers as it thrashes disks and pauses things when the buffers fill up. It can’t keep up with applications that use lots of disk caching or make many small file modifications, like merging a large git repo. So things crash and generally run very poorly all the time. Plus all http connections end up with invalid certificates after the MitM attacks, and they block a lot of connections even to places like GitHub which we use. So things break constantly.
They laid off most technical people with any experience (should say with any moderately higher salaries) as part of their push for AI to take over those jobs. So, most of the people dealing with these issues don’t understand the technology.
I can’t imagine what they could use all pf that data for which includes tons of employee and customer private data. It would take years to sort through for some specific breach, so it’s useless for it’s stated purpose. It’s just ripe for hackers to steal tons of data on tens of millions of people around the world, though.
When executives and middle managers are put on charge of technical decisions utilizing “AI” and short term, junior level technical contractors, it’s no wonder they make tons of bad decisions and don’t recognize how much it’s costing them. If only there was competition to drive innovation rather than easy cost cutting like laying off experienced employees, maybe things would change. But that’s impossible in the modern late-stage capitalist economy they’ve created. So we just have to wait for the whole system to collapse. But by then we may have reached a point where it’s no longer possible to prevent extinction from climate change (water and food shortages, pandemics, and all the other things were seeing). We just need to wait and see what collapses first I suppose. If only democracy hadn’t been turned into this farce and media hadn’t been coopted and consolidated to not allow enough people to see what’s really going on, maybe we could change it.
They laid off most technical people with any experience (should say with any moderately higher salaries) as part of their push for AI to take over those jobs
One my fav quotes from Ricky Gervais applies to management like that.
“When you are dead, you do not know that you are dead. It is only difficult for the others. It is the same when you are stupid”.
My company (near the top of the fortune 500 companies) has been doing this for a while. They track every file change, intercept all http web connections using MitM attacks, etc.
It causes tons of issues for software development and the production application operations including extreme slowdown of both laptops and servers as it thrashes disks and pauses things when the buffers fill up. It can’t keep up with applications that use lots of disk caching or make many small file modifications, like merging a large git repo. So things crash and generally run very poorly all the time. Plus all http connections end up with invalid certificates after the MitM attacks, and they block a lot of connections even to places like GitHub which we use. So things break constantly.
They laid off most technical people with any experience (should say with any moderately higher salaries) as part of their push for AI to take over those jobs. So, most of the people dealing with these issues don’t understand the technology.
I can’t imagine what they could use all pf that data for which includes tons of employee and customer private data. It would take years to sort through for some specific breach, so it’s useless for it’s stated purpose. It’s just ripe for hackers to steal tons of data on tens of millions of people around the world, though.
When executives and middle managers are put on charge of technical decisions utilizing “AI” and short term, junior level technical contractors, it’s no wonder they make tons of bad decisions and don’t recognize how much it’s costing them. If only there was competition to drive innovation rather than easy cost cutting like laying off experienced employees, maybe things would change. But that’s impossible in the modern late-stage capitalist economy they’ve created. So we just have to wait for the whole system to collapse. But by then we may have reached a point where it’s no longer possible to prevent extinction from climate change (water and food shortages, pandemics, and all the other things were seeing). We just need to wait and see what collapses first I suppose. If only democracy hadn’t been turned into this farce and media hadn’t been coopted and consolidated to not allow enough people to see what’s really going on, maybe we could change it.
One my fav quotes from Ricky Gervais applies to management like that.
“When you are dead, you do not know that you are dead. It is only difficult for the others. It is the same when you are stupid”.