I see they cut off access for staff before telling them. not an atypical move, but I wonder if they were actually able to revoke all access, given there's systems like Kubernetes where some auth. types can't be revoked once granted.
Most people will have worked on laptops that have the software installed that allows them to completely brick the device.
It just makes me wonder what they'll be doing with 1000+ laptops and other devices. Do they expect people to send it back? Probably yes. I'd personally just declare: "I have low money and I had to fire your laptop service, thanks for the work of getting it to me, I'll be keeping it now."
I mean, that's what they do with the work of their employees. "I have low money and I had to fire you and 1000+ others, thanks for the work of making my company big, I'll be keeping it now."
> I'd personally just declare: "I have low money and I had to fire your laptop service, thanks for the work of getting it to me, I'll be keeping it now."
I think you could then expect a knock on your door from a couple of police officers. [1]
Airbnb allowed folks to keep their laptops after their recent round of layoffs. Presumably these laptops are managed by IT with the ability to remote wipe.
If not, I feel sorry for the folks in charge of rounding up all this hardware to likely sit around and rot.
As long as their cluster API servers aren't on the Internet.... which is a default for AKS, EKS, and GKE :) (there's 1.3M servers identified as Kubernetes directly on the Internet according to Shodan's latest stats).
