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IT here, Plesse don't involve us... We don't want to to deal with this bs either
IT here, Yes, by all means involve me. I will buy a second monitor and plug it into a known box that is no business going anywhere. I will then block, at the network firewall level, any outbound traffic to anything that thing talks to. If it uses its own MAC address at the head end I will then collect and publish every connection that thing tries to make outside to a blacklist and provide it to the public.
Sounds way more interesting than most IT work as well. I'd definitely rather do some investigative work like this than a typical parade of password resets, email assistance, and software installations.
Hands you a random laptop.
"The thing doesn't work."
Refuses to elaborate and leaves.
It and I appear to have the same thing wrong with us. I'm not working on it.