SIP providers usually sell numbers in contiguous series for businesses. For example, if your company buys a block of 50 numbers, the SIP provider then allocates XXX-5100 to XXX-5150.
But since you're keeping this strictly internal, you don't have to worry about that.
Step 3: unfuck the SIP settings, then email both HR and their supervisor to throw them under the bus. Also covers your ass for step 4.
Step 4: Route the manager's calls to a disconnected number. When they come knocking about their phone not working, tell them, "No, you should be able to dial out, unless someone changed the SIP trunk settings and didn't tell me."
Assuming you already have the IP phones, you need two things. A PBX server (for the VoIP stuff), and a SIP trunk with a block of external phone numbers.
Start with the PBX server software, there's several free/open-source implementations. Once you're comfortable with it and have internal calling good to go, then you can spend on the SIP trunk and number blocks.
I had to check the proposal at its source to make sure it wasn't an April Fools joke.
Step right up and place your bets now, folks! What will be the tipping point for massive defederation? Will it be:
Snobby, vocal elitism from instance admins,
Retaliatory sanctions for anticompetitive actions, or
insufficient moderation of harmful or adult content?
I'm putting $20 on the third one, rampant porn bots will be the tipping point.
I barely touch any code beyond some excel automation macros, PowerBI queries, and mostly ProtoFlux for Resonite. But even I can tell, this isn't merely unreasonable...
This is flat out absurd.
I would have called them back ASAP and told them they accidentally sent me a long term internal project.
No, there are still use cases for it. I usually use it to retrieve web pages from sites that get incorrectly blocked by the firewall at work.
Doubtful. These days it's easy to AI generate some people who "had good luck with the service".
Initiate the return process with Amazon. Say they sent the wrong version and it's incompatible with your current phone provider.
Long live mastodon. And bluesky too, when they finally open up and stop with the invite codes.
While I have no sympathy for the upper management behind this stupidity, I would like to remind people to ensure their fire is focused away from developers and other non-management staff. They generally have no say in these calls.
If you have the connections to pull their staff away into jobs at other companies, please do that instead. It may not feel like it, but it will do more long-term damage if you can extract their senior talent.
It's only minor if the data points in this breach are used by themselves.
Once you aggregate this with other data breaches, you could end up with a much bigger capability to target anyone in this breach.