This is any big old US tech company. Working infosec, I don't really mess with "spy on users" stuff but I do get exposed to the tech and the people that make use of it. I have a separate lan and ISP for my work stuff on purpose.
Needless to say, I envy germns and swedish people the most but even countries you would by HN standards consider authoritarian have better privacy protections than the US because what I can do for malware/incident response is red-taped a lot.
I still prefer living here though, I guess you gotta accept the good with the bad.
This is why I have a strict policy of never using my personal equipment for work stuff, and never using work equipment for personal stuff. Commingling the two things is just asking for trouble.
VPN can be used both ways - to connect into the workplace, and for the workplace to connect into your home network. Configuring a pi to do the same thing is trivial, a configured workplace machine is totally outside of your control and should be considered as such.
It is not of much use except to packet sniff your network - unless you have network drives with no passwords on the shares or some other network attached equipment like cameras etc.
Info about your lan devices,etc... shows up and not just the company but several 3rd parties get your external IP associated with your work account and those same vendors see your IP from personal devices/clients.
Most people are too screwed anyways, they would sync their personal google account on a work machine even lol.
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This is any big old US tech company. Working infosec, I don't really mess with "spy on users" stuff but I do get exposed to the tech and the people that make use of it. I have a separate lan and ISP for my work stuff on purpose.
Needless to say, I envy germns and swedish people the most but even countries you would by HN standards consider authoritarian have better privacy protections than the US because what I can do for malware/incident response is red-taped a lot.
I still prefer living here though, I guess you gotta accept the good with the bad.
Yep.
This is why I have a strict policy of never using my personal equipment for work stuff, and never using work equipment for personal stuff. Commingling the two things is just asking for trouble.
How exactly does a separate LAN or ISP help?
VPN can be used both ways - to connect into the workplace, and for the workplace to connect into your home network. Configuring a pi to do the same thing is trivial, a configured workplace machine is totally outside of your control and should be considered as such.
It is not of much use except to packet sniff your network - unless you have network drives with no passwords on the shares or some other network attached equipment like cameras etc.
Info about your lan devices,etc... shows up and not just the company but several 3rd parties get your external IP associated with your work account and those same vendors see your IP from personal devices/clients.
Most people are too screwed anyways, they would sync their personal google account on a work machine even lol.