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Cake day: October 17th, 2023

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  • IT guy here, if we gave developers the option to exclude whatever the hell they wanted from AV scanning it would just mean that we would end up with computers where the entire C: drive would be excluded.

    No, can’t have that.

    So what should a decent IT department do to give developers the access they need to do their job while maintaining a decent level of security?

    Well, the least bad solution I have worked with was to have a non generic path that was excluded by policy.

    Something like C:\Excluded

    The directory was excluded from AV scan and allowed in policy, the user could put what they needed there and it would be fine.




  • “Starving children in Africa”

    That is a such a classic argument, too bad it is completely idiotic.

    A starving child in Africa would not be helped by sending our food scraps to them, the food would spoil and harm them instead. If the food did make it to Africa without spoiling, it would rightfully be rejected, as an insult to the government and people of these nations.

    But let’s say that the food didn’t spoil and was accepted, it would ruin the local economy. The food would be cheaper than the locally available food, driving farmers out of business, increasing the dependency on food scraps.

    Never make that argument in this context, it just shows how dumb you are.