I’m about 4 months into a new job and I do everything via laptop. It’s a good sized company, about 400 employees I think. I got a request from IT for a meeting to transition from JAMF to Desktop Central, which is affecting everything. I had no idea about JAMF though, it was never mentioned in my onboarding. Trying to look up info on these two brought me to basically “they can see absolutely everything you do.” But it’s not too clear to me the extent involved here. Any IT folks with knowledge about this? Researching into it, fucking every company with remote employees is getting into this. Feels like a massive surveillance transition unrolling in real time and it seems real bad

Edit - are there any ways I can effectively prevent them from doing this? Dummy activity scripts? VPNs?

Double edit — it is indeed a work laptop issued to me

  • staplegun [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    Honestly, trying to coexist with software whose purpose is to track your activity is more trouble than its worth. There's a reason why the solution to malware infections is to flatten the entire system and reinstall; there's just so many moving parts to keep track of. Your best options to isolate your home/work environments are (in ascending order of security):

    1. Use a VM
    2. Dual booting
    3. Get those fucks to issue you a work laptop