[robbedpeter]

Yeah, let's make it harder for the people who have to clean up after security incidents. The automatic logout policies are there for a reason. Bypassing that means one day, somebody's going to forget and leave an important workstation open for a passersby or malicious actor.

If it's that inconvenient, talk with your IT people and make a case for changing it. If you use stuff like this, I hope you get shitcanned.

[A4ET8a8uTh0]

Eh, I hear you and I understand the concern, but.. some very corporate jobs have very corporate ITs with their hands tied by policy that makes exceptions truly exceptional.

I was going to provide a more recent anecdote, but decided against since it was a little too specific.

[Tao331]

> let's make it harder for the people who have to clean up after security incidents

Uh oh, sounds like you might have to actually do your job too!

[robbedpeter]

I'm so glad I left desktop support, but I still empathize. Running a network of hundreds of endpoints means you have to sacrifice laziness. That means you have to log in again after leaving your computer for five minutes. Because if you don't, the jackass who doesn't like you will wait to surf your computer to porn sites, or your coworkers will replace your wallpaper, or someone actually malicious will delete your project files and backups, or run a zero-day.

All sorts of shit like that happens. People are fundamentally lazy and stupid, which is why we can't have nice things, line workplaces where you don't have to worry about leaving your computer unlocked.

Stuff like this site that makes it easier to embrace the laziness and stupidity just make life worse.

How about no browsers? How about limiting network access to a strict whitelist approved by the boss and nothing else?

That's the type of shit that happens when you create tools like this. I 100% guarantee this site will be misused and the resulting corporate overcorrection will make hundreds or thousands of people's lives objectively worse.