A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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Do not use your own personal hardware for school, or work-related tasks. If your school wants you to use hardware, they can issue it to you. And you only use it for school. If your job wants you to use hardware, they can issue it to you, and you can only use it for your job. Use your personal stuff for personal stuff only. Do not mix and match.
My work will not provide me a work machine for the very optional WFH benefit I have. Either I use my personal machine, or I have to go into the office, and fuck the office.
So, I put my work stuff into Virtual Machine jail; if they want to spy on me, they’ll have to figure out how to break out of that first.
if i had to provide a pc for work at home, it’d be a separate machine used exclusively for that, and isolated on its own lan.
Yah a decent work machine with an i5, 256GB SSD, and 8GB RAM is like 300USD on sale in many countries. No way I wouldn’t just do that, the fuel savings and commute time would pay for it immediately.
Good plan, just ensure you isolate that VM from your home network, too. I don’t trust my company at all, so their laptop only connects to my guest wifi.
Yeah, that’s a pretty good option as well.
I’ve never seen a post-secondary school that provides computer hardware.
Yeah, fair enough. When I said that, I was thinking more of K-12, not college. In that case, you should definitely be using at least a virtual machine in order to jail whatever system into that VM.
Back in 2006, mine did. My entire program was issued a laptop and it included all the software we needed, including AutoCAD. At the end of the 3-year program we bought it for a dollar.
Awesome for you and your cohort, sounds privileged. That was twenty years ago and still sounds exceptional. I’ve been to multiple universities and colleges along with family members, even programs that require a workstation pc do not provide them for you. Im working on updating one right now and at a “better” uni you have to apply for a fund through your student association. Best you normally get is rentable laptops from the library.