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Regarding using your work laptop for personal stuff, there is a very important security aspect to it I've not seen many people be careful about. When installin
by midrus 5y ago
Regarding using your work laptop for personal stuff, there is a very important security aspect to it I've not seen many people be careful about.
When installing any software such as applications, or as developers, dependencies for your programming language of choice you're always at risk of installing something that once executed would for example grab your ssh keys and push them to a server somewhere, or all your environment variables, etc,etc.
So, if that happens when doing normal work, it sucks, it's bad, but you were doing your job the best you could.
What I think it should be unacceptable is for this to happen when you're working on your own side projects or your personal stuff.
To avoid this, as everyone suggest, don't use your work laptop, but if you do (example: while traveling, or because your work laptop is more powerful, etc) just create a separate user account on it. Just this simple thing will provide a lot more security and protect your company from a lot of security issues.