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Apple explicitly asks employees to merge their personal and work accounts
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Re: Apple explicitly asks employees to merge their personal and work accounts
#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can set up a new host in your ssh config and specify a key different from your main account and it should swap your accounts based on the key. Additionally, you can set a git config to be included if you’re in a particular directory so that you can change your commit details. I’m on a mobile device so excuse the vagueness, but if there’s interest I can provide some resources and go more in depth.
A new host with what hostname? Because git uses github.com for all repos.
put this in your ~/.ssh/config
Host personal.github.com
HostName github.com
User git
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa_personal
Re: Apple explicitly asks employees to merge their personal and work accounts
#113Some time ago when I hired on at Apple (I've since moved on to greener pastures) I had a tough time provisioning my corporate MacBook. Every time I tried entering my work email address I got kicked into an unfamiliar auth flow that ended up not working. After I mentioned how much trouble I was having, someone sitting near me in the office told me I needed to use a personal Apple ID to provision the device. I created…
> It's just that if you want to do any personal stuff with corp hardware, it's much more convenient to just use your personal Apple ID when you provision the hardware.
Yes, but I feel like a major takeaway is that you should never ever do that
Re: Apple explicitly asks employees to merge their personal and work accounts
#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
This sounds like advice learned the hard way. Stay well, and don't burn out!
I doubt it. I've never heard first-hand of anyone running into any trouble that this would mitigate. Some people are just crazy overzealously fearful of employers and BigCos.
There is another perspective: many companies don't want their employees to use company resources for personal use. They don't want that email from their domain name to be misconstrued as official business, to be entangled in their employees' legally or morally questionable actions, or simply to foot the bill for the resources used. It is a bit odd that a business would ask their employees to merge personal and professional accounts.
It's also worth noting that using personal accounts for professional purposes can confuse things. Personally, I forward any email that my supervisors inadvertently send to my personal account to my work account so that everything is archived and is in one place. Given the amount of filtering of some services (e.g. email) correspondence sent between internal accounts also tends to be more reliable. I have seen situations where dozens of employees did not receive a vital message since it was either sent to a spam folder, or simply dropped, since almost everyone found their personal email provider more convenient.
Re: Apple explicitly asks employees to merge their personal and work accounts
#115This would be a serious breach of privacy if true. But reading the tweets I'm not sure what the policy really is: > During a discovery thing 3yr ago, legal forced me to hand-over all my texts. They refused to let me delete anything, even "fully personal," even when I said "by fully personal I mean nudes." They said they're in their "permanent evidence locker This doesn't sound like company policy, and more like they…
> ... more like they were subpoenaed or otherwise compelled to hand over communications.
Exactly. OP wrote it was a "discovery thing". Discovery is a legal process for gathering evidence in a lawsuit. All relevant business records are discoverable, even if they're stored on employees' personal devices.
Re: Apple explicitly asks employees to merge their personal and work accounts
#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Edit: One more: don’t use corporate WiFi with your personal devices Can't you use a VPN and the guest network and be essentially OK?
I don't ger this either. With TLS/SSL , how is it different than connecting to any public wifi?
Some corporate setups need a new root CA added - since TLS/SSL is inspected.
Re: Apple explicitly asks employees to merge their personal and work accounts
#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Edit: One more: don’t use corporate WiFi with your personal devices Can't you use a VPN and the guest network and be essentially OK?
I don't ger this either. With TLS/SSL , how is it different than connecting to any public wifi?
The workplace admin can see which domains you visit when you use the work wifi.
Re: Apple explicitly asks employees to merge their personal and work accounts
#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
A new host with what hostname? Because git uses github.com for all repos.
put this in your ~/.ssh/config Host personal.github.com HostName github.com User git IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa_personal then clone from git@personal.github.com/x.git for personal stuff
The host also doesn’t have to be a “real” host. You could do something like github-personal for example.
Thanks for the assist fnord77!
Re: Apple explicitly asks employees to merge their personal and work accounts
#119Github also used to insist on that, which turned me off to them from the beginning.
Re: Apple explicitly asks employees to merge their personal and work accounts
#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Edit: One more: don’t use corporate WiFi with your personal devices Can't you use a VPN and the guest network and be essentially OK?
I don't ger this either. With TLS/SSL , how is it different than connecting to any public wifi?
"jptech used 6.8 gb last month, must be watching Youtube all day"