alt Hacker NewsI guess learning "someone elses' computer isn't yours" is a lesson best taught early on?
I know fellow millenials that use their work computers for personal reasons. And thats some of the stupidest things you can do. Dont use work or school hardware for personal reasons.
I'd also say, if you're running Windows you're also surveilled to hell and back as well. Linux is basically the only platform thats not.
And as to larger surveillance, its pervading everywhere. Work. School. Driving (Flock). Commercial web. "Free" services.
I'm glad I grew up in one of the last generations that wasn't habitually online. I did loads of "troublesome behavior", that never followed me. Now, some thing will be captured with a smartphone and memorialized forever. And that... Alas. (Old man yelling at cloud, I guess?)
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Yep. I treat work computers as hostile entities. They are always on an isolated guest SSID and VLAN and I never use them for personal tasks.
When my kids start bringing school-owned hardware home that's getting the same treatment.
There are so many lessons going unlearned here. People who surrender their children to the government are upset that they aren't de-surrendered later in the evening once the child arrives physically at home. Even if they win the court battle, they've lost the philosophical one a long time ago.
Laptops are so cheap these days there's no reason to not buy a separate laptop for personal use and only use the work laptop for work.
Also put a sticker over the camera.