a pastor who doesn't want anyone to see the contents of their hard drive... more red flags there than a Soviet parade
Perhaps, although a pastor is likely to have legitimate confidential information about parishioners.
Nah, where I work (and where we all work, teally) we have legitimate confidential information about our customers... that the appropriate employees can access appropriately. That's not an abnormal use case.
Definitely has something to hide, especially if he's formatting his computer every time he has a "problem". Not that data can't be recovered after a format anyway.
That's absolutely wild. I bet if he owned a garage, he'd expect you to be able to fix a car in the dark.
Question tho, as someone not in IT, how do you handle HIPPA policies. Clearly you have to have access, but I assume the info would just be backed up seperately from other data.
I worked as a Data Engineer in health insurance for almost a decade. I'm Canadian, but we have similar laws and the answer is basically that every employee signs a lot of NDAs. Data access should be limited to what you need to do your role, and any data that leaves the company has to be totally stripped of personal identifying information (usually some form of data masking).
That being said, I never found it difficult to get access to data, it was usually just another NDA to sign. I did work with government policies for a bit where I had to go to a government facility and get finger printed and all that before they gave me access, that was interesting. I work in tech now and the controls around data access are a lot more serious, gotta jump through a lot of hoops to get access to anything. Probably because of the scrutiny tech is under these days.
My money's on the chairman not learning from the experience either; he still blamed you even though he was totally unable to find a way to actually blame you.
Yikes. Was the company profitable at all?
And it's that day that Mr. Chairman and his Pastor friend lost their massive CP collection.
I waited for him to finish, and then asked him politely how he proposed that I do a backup of files that I'm not allowed to have any access to?
I mean, set up Borg to back up his machine, in theory, but you'd have to set up backups first, and then blindly trust Borg that nothing's going wrong. And of course Borg doesn't do Windows, so you'd need his machine to run an SMB server
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