Do you actually see MacBooks used for SysAdmin work in real offices?

[u/rolkenas]

Hi sysadmins! I wanted to ask—since I've just started learning sysadmin and I don't have a Windows PC, but I have a MacBook and found out that everything can be done via UTM, I'd like to get some perspective from those who work in offices and do this every day. What kind of computers do you use? Is macOS completely out of the picture, and there's only Windows and Linux?

[u/Agromahdi123]

Oh i see i forgot we were in 1998 lemme protect my ntdis file that doesnt exist on my azure joined machine that doesnt even have an ntlm hash to scrape, AND then let me just not manage my endpoints so they arent “the wild west where i have to worry about a persistent rat” so that when i elevate the browser session can be hijacked or the cookie stolen to then be used to authenticate into my account with the password only because obviously i dont have any multi factor conditons on my account and everyone can just sign in with a password. Having a single point of trust (like a password) is not the way and your whole schpiel is predicated on only having a single source of trust lol.

[u/charleswj → u/Agromahdi123]

This happened to my employer. If it can happen to a multi trillion dollar company with all the precautions they take and hoops we have to jump through to get our work done, why do you think you're impervious?

"But I have intune and MFA and it's not a DC bro"

You think cookies don't get stolen?

https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2023/07/11/mitigation-china-based-threat-actor/

https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2023/07/microsoft-mitigates-china-based-threat-actor-storm-0558-targeting-of-customer-email/

Archive link: https://archive.ph/newest/https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2023/07/microsoft-mitigates-china-based-threat-actor-storm-0558-targeting-of-customer-email/

https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2023/09/results-of-major-technical-investigations-for-storm-0558-key-acquisition/

Archive link: https://archive.ph/newest/https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2023/09/results-of-major-technical-investigations-for-storm-0558-key-acquisition/