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Yeah, it's never felt good to me to mix work and personal devices. I used to travel a lot and took two laptops with me; the work-issued laptop, and my own lapt
by jrockway 5y ago
Yeah, it's never felt good to me to mix work and personal devices. I used to travel a lot and took two laptops with me; the work-issued laptop, and my own laptop. Work was done on the work laptop, everything else was done on my own. I heard rumors that screenshots were taken occasionally on work laptops, so I didn't really trust it for anything. I have no idea of those rumors were true. (Both were Chromebook Pixels, hilariously, and honestly the personal one was running my own build of Chrome OS so if Google wanted to spy on me, they could probably sneak the code past me. It's a big codebase.)
I think the more interesting case is the growing startup. I mix work and personal, because work doesn't require any special software. I push code to Github and message people on Slack. But the day will come when for compliance reasons we need to be able to state that nobody who accessed production had a virus, or whatever, and I think that will be very interesting. Either we'll have to ask people to install what will be perceived as spyware, or we'll have to buy everyone a "work computer", which will probably be less powerful than whatever personal computer they have. I personally hate maintaining two computers -- I don't have the space for two desks, and I don't enjoy making the same customizations to both (no, dotfiles on Github doesn't cover everything unless I make a NixOS image with all the ancillary software I use). But, I also don't enjoy spyware on my personal computer. So I guess all I can do is hope that it never comes up as a compliance strategy -- but you know what they say: hope is not a strategy! ;)