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Because workers arent slaves or robots, and being on the job doesnt make them such. Your mentality is actually staggering to me.
Can you answer this question directly: What is it that you don't want seen by a company representative, on a company computer, while being paid by the company?
So how do I know if my work computer features such surveillance?
Just assume it does
We have some ridiculous timeout on our work machines that triggers the screensaver after 2 minutes of idle time (we can’t change this).
After it’s triggered, you need to enter your password to unlock (company mandated, 10 chars minimum, no repeating chars, at least 1 upper and 1 lower case char, at least 1 special symbol, change every 90 days, can't be too similar to last 10(!) passwords).
Okay, this is annoying. So, for the longest time, I used an open source mouse jiggler app (basically simulated cursor movement).
This worked fine until a recent software update. I wondered why my screen saver was being triggered again. Oh, the mouse jiggler isn’t running! Let’s open it up.
A big dialog box appears on the screen: “THIS APPLICATION VIOLATES COMPANY POLICY AND ITS USAGE HAS BEEN REPORTED.”
Oh… cool.
I went on Amazon and ordered some $5 hardware mouse jiggler dongle. That worked for about a month or so.
Then suddenly, I started getting CrowdStrike notifications: “Functions of a USB device were restricted according to company policy.”
Fun times!
It’s only a matter of time until Zoom starts sending reports of whether I had the window in focus or not during meetings with management.
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Can you answer this question directly: What is it that you don't want seen by a company representative, on a company computer, while being paid by the company?
How would you feel about audio recording in break rooms and hallways? How about fart-detectors in the chairs, recording all that to some database? Same idea, and maybe you wouldn’t mind but surely you can see why many people would. FWIW enough people do mind that this kind of thing is illegal in some countries.
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Because workers arent slaves or robots, and being on the job doesnt make them such. Your mentality is actually staggering to me.
Can you answer this question directly: What is it that you don't want seen by a company representative, on a company computer, while being paid by the company?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because workers arent slaves or robots, and being on the job doesnt make them such. Your mentality is actually staggering to me.
Can you answer this question directly: What is it that you don't want seen by a company representative, on a company computer, while being paid by the company?
Can you answer this directly: How many people's computers, servers, and backups should video of my child be on?
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Because workers arent slaves or robots, and being on the job doesnt make them such. Your mentality is actually staggering to me.
Can you answer this question directly: What is it that you don't want seen by a company representative, on a company computer, while being paid by the company?
- They got acquired by 1Password
- They've pivoted away from a managed osquery product.
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Because workers arent slaves or robots, and being on the job doesnt make them such. Your mentality is actually staggering to me.
Can you answer this question directly: What is it that you don't want seen by a company representative, on a company computer, while being paid by the company?
If I do a google search for "cake toppers for lesbian wedding" while my code's compiling, that's morally fine. But if a bored "company representative" decides to take offense to that, now it's a whole goddamn situation that I have to deal with.
Or if I'm on Stack Overflow to copy&paste, and one of the "Hot Network Questions" in the sidebar has an "offensive" phrase in it, is it going to trip their automated flagging criteria?
I was surprised (perhaps I shouldn't have been) to encounter bossware-like surveilance in an interview process . About 6 months ago I was interviewing with InterSystems, a company that does healthcare software. Only when I signed in for the online coding interview did I learn that they required I have a webcam on myself the whole time. I don't like using coarse language. But it was the first time I struggled to not u…
I was surprised (perhaps I shouldn't have been) to encounter bossware-like surveilance in an interview process . About 6 months ago I was interviewing with InterSystems, a company that does healthcare software. Only when I signed in for the online coding interview did I learn that they required I have a webcam on myself the whole time. I don't like using coarse language. But it was the first time I struggled to not u…