[cbsks]

I interned at Goddard in 2006 and my PI had a rogue wireless access point for his interns to use. Apparently it was a long and convoluted process to get network access for personal computers, so he didn’t even bother trying. I remember some of my fellow interns complaining about having to work offline for the first month of their 10 week internship.

[dvtrn]

it was a long and convoluted process to get network access for personal computers, so he didn’t even bother trying

"When people can't work with you, they will look for ways to work around you". - former IT boss of mine.

Every time.

[borumpilot]

Cool thing is: with that argument I was able to convince management to roll out WiFi worldwide at a large corp where the CISO hated WiFi and had halted all projects that sought to implement it.

Needless to say, there where dozens of rogue AP's in the network, which where a biatch to find (was a manual job actually walking around with a laptop trying to find them). With the global rollout we made sure "rogue AP detection" was implemented as an additional feature, which came with its own challenges (sometimes not knowing something is easier to deal with...).

[ryandrake]

Another fellow Goddard intern checking in! But mine was back before anyone worried about “working offline” vs. “working online”. We just wrote our code—without needing to browse HN and StackOverflow every 10 minutes :-) We still had plenty of other non-Internet related red tape, bureaucracy, and other forms of Work Prevention to overcome and avoid though.