Ok, here's the situation....
I'm the WAN engineer for an organization with thirty sites. In order to reduce recurring costs of lease lines, we are doing a huge wireless WAN installation. I'm thinking of buying a house about a mile and a half away from one of the cell towers we are hanging equipment on. I made a joke to my boss that I could just get my own antenna and use the wireless shot to get to our DS3 from home and use our bandwidth instead of getting DSL or cable at the house. She said "Sure". So I get all excited, and say
"Really??!!"
"Yeah, why not, I don't have a problem with that."
"Oh wow, how cool..." Says I
"Yeah, just don't tell anyone else." She tells me.
"Why?"
"Well, I don't think anyone above us would go for it, so just keep it to yourself."

This sets the 'not such a good idea' light off in my mind. If it's really not a big deal, why couldn't I get the blessing of my department head to do it? Truth of the matter is, I do tons of work from home and have to open up holes in our security scheme in order for me to do it. If I was behind the firewall on a network we control, it would be much easier and much more secure for me to do this. I mention that to her, and say I think it would be a good selling point to the big boss. She tells me "Absolutely not. You do it if you want, but don't tell anyone."

So I decided not to do it, but I have to admit the thought of all that bandwidth free is mighty tempting. What would you do?


Oh yeah, before you decide what you would do, I forgot to mention I don't think I could be caught. I have absolute control over all the routers, firewalls, all of our IP addresses, etc. No one would ever know.