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I'm forced to use Windows 7 at work. I run Linux in virtualbox to get round this limitation. It keeps corporate IT departments happy because they can enforce patching policies and audit software.


You're forced to use windows, but your work requires that you do work on Linux? Seems counterproductive, can you provide more details?


Same here. Our network is heavy on MS Active Directory authorization, so really the only way to run Linux at all is to host it on a Windows/Virtualbox VM.


That sounds terrible.


I consider it a fun challenge to work around the obstacles that are in place. I also use a private tunnel to get around all the web filters and etc.


> I also use a private tunnel to get around all the web filters and etc.

Why would you do that?


Last time I ran into problems with web filters at work, it was because they had blocked a lot of security-related things on the grounds that they could potentially be useful to hackers. For example, the websites for most popular fuzzers were blocked.


A specific case I recall was being able to access Sourceforge.




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