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by ghaff 1817 days ago
And it's not really representative of the US. I work for anything but a tiny startup on a personal MacBook and no one is monitoring everything I do.
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> on a personal MacBook and no one is monitoring everything I do

Well you said personal MacBook, this topic is about work laptop or phone.

These days (sadly) for any non-small company, all work computers and phones have remote control spyware. If you think that's not the case in your large company, you're probably wrong.

At a recent medium size engineering company, I was constantly surprised how even extremely technical engineers in the company didn't realize all the company spyware that is running on their laptop.

The standard Linux laptops people are given are fully company-managed. But many people, including myself, reload them with a distribution we manage ourselves.

I do have MDM on my personal iPhone but that seemed like a reasonable tradeoff in order to easily access work email and files on my phone.