• @[email protected]
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    1492 months ago

    This is why keeping work accounts, machines, and activities separate is always a good idea. In this case Gary did have “something to hide”.

    • Riskable
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      Nonsense! Calum is doing what Calum does at home. If the company doesn’t want to see it they shouldn’t be watching him like that when he’s at home.

      Remember: Calum isn’t feeling well. Any doctor would say Calum is doing his part to get better and stay healthy!

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        Calum is using a work machine for personal actuvities, though. A little Youtube never hurt anyone but straight-up watching porn “between enquiries”, which sounds like during work hours or something, is kinda not on.

        Work shouldn’t distrust employees this much and these measures never lead to increased productivity but Calum is also a complete fucking idiot.

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        362 months ago

        You seem to misunderstand. The tech isn’t saying, “Hey, we’re watching you,”, they’re saying, “Hey, your monitor here at work is showing off everything you’re doing and everyone in the office can see.”

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        A decade ago, I watched a scientist at a conference plug his laptop in to the conference room, wake it up, sync to the Big Screen, load xvideos tab he had up, and then watched him flounder for a good 20 seconds to try to figure out how to close it and save face before loading a PowerPoint.

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        If BYOD was allowed I’d probably get a laptop with two M.2 drives and keep work and personal on separate OSs on separate drives, both encrypted so they can’t access each other’s files.

        Best of both worlds.

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    I also work from home and use my work laptop for work only. Not even googling stuff, nothing. Just work. Never even opened the media player or went to youtubes website once.

    I have my own computer running on a separate screen and I can do and watch whatever the fuck I want during working hours. I can play a game or watch a movie and nobody knows. Its that simple.

    Same with phones. Never use work phone for personal stuff.

    Its not even being tech savvy, just common sense ffs.

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      Same here. It also removes some hassle when changing jobs. All of your personal stuff is on the computer you own and all of the work stuff is on the the computer the company owns. Just turn in your work laptop and you’re done with that place and on to the next.

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      Additionally, never connect your phone to the company WiFi

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        Definitely if they require you to use sso, but if it’s just guest wifi that anyone with a password can access, I wouldn’t worry about monitoring.

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    Thanks Gary,

    Now that I know you can see me, I can wank much better.

    Best, Calum

  • @[email protected]
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    I have been working from home for years and my employer is not watching our screen. However about a decade ago we received a company wide email from an admin reminding everyone that they can see DNS requests when we’re connected to the VPN.

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      Thats why i have a laptop for work, solely for work, nothing but work right next to my big rig

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      132 months ago

      Sounds like he’s remoting into the computer in the office from another computer at home (pretty common in IT since you probably have admin tools perfectly configured on that computer and specifically configured for its network config) but with Windows Remote Access it lets the person physically at the computer see everything by default. But i would really hope that someone in IT would be painfully aware of why you shouldn’t do sensitive personal browsing on a work computer or a work network

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        pretty common in IT

        I’ve never heard of anyone in IT regularly remoting to their work computer.

        If we remote anywhere it is to a jump host, and those are terminal servers, so no monitor connected.

        • @[email protected]
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          I think it’s kind of an old school way of doing things. My old sys admin boss did that every day up until her retired.

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        I don’t RDP that often to physical devices, but I’m pretty damn sure the default settings for RDP forcefully logs/locks out your user on the physical device and only your lock screen is visible. I have never tried it but I’m also pretty sure it’s possible to have two logged in users at once, one using RDP and one using the physical device.

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          I was blanking pretty hard when I wrote that and meant to write RDP while thinking of TeamViewer. Need to post stuff less late at night

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          For desktop windows this is not true. A remote sign in will sign out the local user and vice versa

        • @[email protected]
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          Remote access with continuum/connectwise, TeamViewer, etc gains access to the screen including for control but doesn’t normally black out anything locally.

          If its in a common area with speakers, anyone can both see and hear anything done on the machine.

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    Remember anything you do on a company pc is probably contractually property of the company. So not only should you never use your company pc for private browsing you should never do anything on it besides your work for the company.

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      You’d be shocked how many of my coworkers use company phones and computers as if they were personal devices both during off time and office hours.

    • @[email protected]
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      22 months ago

      Remember the rules are different outside America and - trends predict - better for the employee.

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    People in this thread who question critical thinking skills but fail to identify the most obvious staged content of the week on lemmy.

    Thanks

    Gary

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    Habitually using your own machine for non-work tasks often lets you keep certain records of the research process which begat the work, even while the client/employer owns the work itself through SLA/NDA/AOI. This typically includes records contributing to general “personal expertise,” such as query history, bookmarks, generalized notes, and other non-proprietary information.

    It also lends to an overall impression of professional sprezzatura when the client can only see a history of master strokes, without the nitty-gritty details of your autodidactic effort.

  • @[email protected]
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    The lack of an apostrophe for “Can see you’re logged in” is unreasonably irritating to this grammatical pedant.

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      that’s not a lack of apostrophe. your is just a different word. if there were a lack of apostrophe it would have said youre.

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        The sentence requires the contraction of “you are”, which contracts down to “you’re”. The apostrophe is still missing even if a different and grammatically wrong word was used.