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marssaxmanyesterday at 7:09 PM1 replyview on HN

It might not be a good idea if you have any concern that the company you work for may ever be involved in litigation. This was part of the training when I joined Microsoft, many years ago, as a result of the big antitrust trial: anything at all that you do on your work computer or the company network might someday be subject to discovery. I have since maintained a strict separation between work accounts, data, and activities, which exist only on company-owned hardware, and my own personal data, which only lives on my own personal hardware.

Some companies are strict about firewalling corporate data in, but I think it's also important for us to protect ourselves by keeping our personal data out.


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xp84yesterday at 8:11 PM

This is extremely good advice. It’s frequently at odds with convenience, since things like iPhone screen mirroring, iPad as a 2nd display, etc. practically beg for you to sign into your work laptop with your personal Apple ID. All I can say is resist the urge to do such things.

I do keep a browser profile on the work machine signed into personal accounts, and do everything personal only in that browser, but even that is probably a mistake. Screen-sharing to home would be a much better compromise, unfortunately my gigabit internet comes with like 50Mbps upload so screen sharing sucks.