[novoreorx]

As someone who knows a lot of Alibaba engineers, this is a fairly common thing and nothing special. Their company owned device has the most strict security control I've ever seen, and it's been for many years. Many softwares are not allowed to run. To me I think it's quite reasonable as the company owned device can access most of the internal resources of this huge monoploy, many of them are confidential. This kind of restriction is only for working in the company, employee's own device out of the company is free from surveillance.