I find it crazy that you can get in trouble for browsing the wrong websites. It's illegal where I live to track people's computers.
this post was submitted on 02 Aug 2023
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In the US there is no reasonable expectation of privacy on company computers and company networks and to reinforce this usually on day 1 of a job you sign documents explicitly stating they can and will monitor traffic on company systems.
Without monitoring traffic on all company systems there would be no way to know if your company was subjected to a breach. There is mandatory reporting for public companies and part of the reporting includes the capability to monitor for said breaches.
To that end I have to wonder where you are that information security is basically prohibited by law.
Just a distinction: It's most-likely a laptop issued by the company, not a personal computer.
Ain't your hardware and/or network
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My company uses zscalar. It's essentially a company endorsed MitM attack and for that reason alone I don't use the work laptop for anything but work.
that reason alone I don’t use the work laptop for anything but work
I think that was the goal.
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When I used to work in an office, I'd always use wireguard to tunnel my traffic on my phone back through my home IP. Got to use their wifi and still maintain my privacy
This is even easier now with tools like tailscale
This does not apply for most european users. Source: I am the one who gets these requests and anyone who isn't a judge gets jack shit. Go pound sand. Anything else would be illegal under privacy and work laws. Even police wont get ANYTHING (judge will reject it) if the crime in question isn't worth at least 2 years of jail time.
Suspected malware domains just get blocked, no further action will ever take place.
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VPN 4tw.
If you just run a VPN things like zscalar will still get you. They'll just send the web traffic through the VPN to their proxies and still log everything you do.
There's ways round it, but all of them will no doubt violate corporate policies.
The only real solution is not to use work computers for non work use.
If you use a private VPN on a company computer, they can still monitor what you're doing on the local machine, and/or report home through the VPN. And some companies won't even wait to ask what you're doing with a personal VPN on their machine - you'll be in trouble just for installing it.
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How? The client should only be talking to your home instance. Your home instance does all aggregation for you. Only Lemmy instances talk to each other and clients talk to one instance. That's how federation works.
Non-textual content (media, and icons I believe) is still served from the other instance to prevent all federated instances from exploding in size.
Additionally, some browsers will preload/prefetch links to "improve the browsing experience"
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