On 18/03/16 21:45, Daniel Llewellyn wrote:
The Government likes people to do that: they supply a really old laptop
with an ancient version of Windows* that you use to connect to a remote
desktop and from that remote desktop you connect to another remote
desktop which is actually inside the firewall and for us where we run
Linux systems inside their firewall we then use SSH from that second
remote desktop to get to the systems we support for them. It's nuts.

* The laptop they provide cannot be connected directly to the internet
and thus cannot run Windows Update.​

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I haven't yet been in the job long enough to figure out the reasoning behind this software labyrinth. I may find some logic behind it. The remote machines access dedicated hardware and run simulations of hardware which link to them. Many people in the business need to access that same simulation/hardware so perhaps this is the only way.

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