[midasuni]

I work for a large company, I have a desktop machine, I fail to see how the company would have access to it (assuming they aren’t using any zero day exploits etc to attack it). They don’t have my private ssh key so can’t ssh in, it sits on my desk at home so they have no physical access. It came straight from the factory and I installed vanilla Ubuntu on it.

[5560675260]

Not your case, obviously, but there is a plethora of management software (like Workspace One) that is mandated in some companies.

[jjav]

> It came straight from the factory and I installed vanilla Ubuntu on it.

In that case hopefully not but as seen elsewhere in this thread, for other OSs they can fully own it even if shipped factory direct.

Unless manufacturers are putting these spyware hooks directly into the firmware? Haven't heard of that yet, but those things change.