• tee9000@lemmy.world
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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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    The lack of an apostrophe for “Can see you’re logged in” is unreasonably irritating to this grammatical pedant.

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

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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.

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    I do wonder about some people’s critical thinking skills. If you are connected to a VPN obviously you are connected to whatever monitoring system your company has set up. Use a brain and use a different device.

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      If I had employees I would seriously fire them for watching porn on a company laptop, not because I care that they’re watching porn and not doing their work but because it’s indicative of a major problem with thinking clearly.

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      Accidents happen, I for sure know this. Especially when you’re sick, or overworked, or just sleep deprived.

      Even moreso if you only have 1 desk and use a KVM.

      It’d be nice if comments like yours would give folks a second thought instead of riding in on a high horse just to shit on someone and leave. It’s not what we need on Lemmy.

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          I do now!

          One device has a red/orange theme. The other is blue themed.

          I really need a light behind the monitor to really value it in though. I rarely see my background with all the windows open.

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        If he’s ill and that’s why he’s working from home and this is not a usual thing then he’s not going to have a KVM is he

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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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        Wait they didn’t give you a laptop? If they want you to work remotely they really should be giving you a device.

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          Nah, i actually wanted to use my own equipment (tax purposes). All the shit is web based anyway

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          They have to in this country. As we deal with not-secret-but-private stuff at my job, they had to supply us some gear to lock down and we DMZed it.

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      That means they’re monitoring them … Gotta exploit that, see what happens.

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

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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.

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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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          Yeah this is a pretty weird setup they’ve got going on.

          Like you say they’re going to be remoting onto their work computer and then having their remote connection remote onto another remote terminal server.

          It’s a holographic holodeck all over again.

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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.

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    Habitually using your own machine for non-work tasks often lets you keep some of the research process which begat the work, even while the client/employer owns the work itself through SLA/NDA/AOI. This includes anything considered akin to personal knowledge, 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.

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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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        I work in the IT department for my company so I know for a fact that there’s no monitoring on the work laptops, which is super strange but whatever.

        Still I wouldn’t use the work laptop for anything other than work activities because despite the fact I 100% know there’s no monitoring I still don’t trust it. Besides, It’s unprofessional, and although I don’t really care about that all that much, it’s good to get into the habit of not doing personal activities on a work laptop, because one day they might start monitoring, and this way I’m already in the habit of not doing anything personal.

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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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    Hey Gary, could you help me? I couldn’t find out how to get you camera access too.