How Do They Do Anything?!

I went to a client’s office to install some apps for a telemarketing platform they wanted on their server.

Me: “How can I put the apps on your server? Would a flash drive work?”

Client: “Sure, bring them on a flash drive and plug them into the external contractor’s PC so I can transfer them to the server where you’ll install them.”

I went there the next day and plugged in the flash drive. Nothing happened, so I went to [Client] and asked him about it.

Client: “Oh, security blocked all our USB ports and CD readers on our PCs. You may have to download it from the webpage, instead.”

The webpage was blocked, as well as almost every other website we tried to visit. 

Client: “That’s bad. Just send them to me through email.”

And that’s how [Client] and I learned that any email that was not from an address at “[Client] dot com” would have its attachments purged, no matter the file extension.

There’s security, and then there’s THIS.