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This kind of thing is why I EXCLUSIVELY browse the Internet on my phone while at work (without using work wifi, of course). I also never use my work email for p
by rm_-rf_slash 11y ago
This kind of thing is why I EXCLUSIVELY browse the Internet on my phone while at work (without using work wifi, of course). I also never use my work email for personal correspondence, ever.
Granted, I work at a remarkably lax institution that cares more about getting the job done and less about managing our lives, but these are habits I picked up working in Silicon Valley and I couldn't even imagine the kinds of perpetual monitoring that some of my friends from college have to put up with.
Nobody cares about how long I'm in the bathroom. They like the software I write. And then we all go home at 5.
- mrfusion 11y agoHow would they track you through wifi?
- x1798DE 11y agoYeah, I am always shocked when I see people logged in to services and stuff at work. I use my phone, never on work wifi, to check e-mail, and if something comes up that needs a real interface, I use my laptop (on work wifi, but with a VPN to my home router). Doing anything else seems like madness to me.
- cbhl 11y agoWhat happens if your employer sets up a stingray to intercept your cellular communications?
- jessaustin 11y agoHopefully they document the fact in discoverable fashion, so your lawsuit can have that extra "human rights violation" flavor.
- thieving_magpie 11y agoI use personal accounts at work. If texts to my wife are a problem, sure have at it. I'll start circulating my resume. Luckily I've never worked at an organization that wanted to own my life to that extent.
- Loughla 11y agoAlso, if my work is being measured by time spent on task instead of output, I'm working in the wrong place.
- nostrademons 11y agoEh, I figured everything I did on the corp network was visible to my employer, but I also didn't care for the most part. If I'm going to post on Hacker News or Reddit, it's on the public Internet, and so having corporate network monitoring catch it is the least of my worries. I just figured that the best defense against getting fired is delivering value to my employer; they didn't care if I take a HN break as long as my overall productivity stayed high. The same applies now that I'm self-employed, too. I did tend to use my phone for personal IMs & emails, but that was because we also used GMail for work, and I didn't want to bother with having an incognito window open all the time.
- lurkinggrue 11y agoI run a portable browser in an encryped drive, even then I turn the caching on it off to it at least doesn't leave as many traces. I'm in IT so I know what we monitor.
- nitrogen 11y agoIf you are part of a conglomerate you also have to consider the possibility that another IT group is snarfing your traffic for employee monitoring and IDS purposes. I've actually seen an overeager IDS I didn't even know existed shut down network access for legitimate services.
- simonebrunozzi 11y agoI remember this from my welcome screen on an Amazon-blessed laptop: "There is no expectation of privacy while using this system".