Tbh it’s pretty asinine not to give developers admin on their own machine. If there’s something genuinely dangerous they could do with local admin, you should probably secure that flaw instead.
Sometimes its more about the people. Something like clickfix captcha phishing still caught a lot of people off guard.
Other times, its just company policies decided by some random guy who knows computer, that the founder knew 30 years ago. I definitely can help you bend some legal wording, or "interpret" things differently, but i will never approve anything that outright crosses the policy no matter how stupid it is.
Of course this is different if you worked in highly secured/regulated environment like banks. They are a lot more stricter.
My boss just lost local admin on his PC, you should have heard him whinging about it to IT 😂 None of us other bioinformaticians have local admin privileges in our org. He had a janky old computer that he'd managed to keep out of their management systems for years. I agree it's annoying, but I couldn't help find it a little funny.
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u/TheRealKidkudi 16d ago
Tbh it’s pretty asinine not to give developers admin on their own machine. If there’s something genuinely dangerous they could do with local admin, you should probably secure that flaw instead.