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Everybody has a cell phone nowadays. There’s no excuse not to use your cell phone for private stuff. In fact don’t use the company Wi-Fi. You must use the company Wi-Fi then you must use a VPN

But no excuse anymore not to use your phone, you don’t need to use the word computer to browse, send emails, flirt, whatever

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Everybody has a cell phone

All of my colleagues have work provided phones and laptops. They do all their personal shit on these devices (they don’t have their own)

They think i’m a huge weirdo for having my own personal devices… “Why waste money? Work gives us computer/phone… Lol, you carry two phones like a drug dealer?”

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Then they have nobody to blame but themselves when drama happens.

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IT: “You’ve been fired. Please return your laptop…”

“But how do i retrieve all my personal files?”

IT: [Shrug emoji]

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Just tell them “I don’t want to spend company’s resources for my own private life.”

The only way is to give them back that guilt and fear they are feeling.

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it’s one thing if they pay for them but if they are actually company devices that’s fucking weird

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Nope. It’s not a pay and reimburse situation

Pure company owned devices

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WTF? What country? Even at jobs where I was given a phone no one felt like ditching their personal devices.

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I suspect its a millenial thing…

A few of us old guys keep personal devices… Our young colleages just expect the company to provide devices for them and never have to buy their own

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Hustlah 4 lyfe

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I mean if all of them have them and use them, then i would definitely see you as a weirdo.

If a company would have fired someone for what the searched on a company computer, everyone would know by now.

Are there even these cases?

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Don’t most work Wifi networks prevent VPN use?

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This has not been my experience

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then spin up your own wireguard instance and connect to it?

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If only it was that easy…

Tried that. And openvpn tun+tap configs, Various ports incl 443, even shadowsocks. None of it gets through.

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Use Tailscale. Much easier to configure and manage than raw WireGuard.

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Mine does. They also keep an eye on it because I had gotten through it and that only worked a few days before it was blocked too. Didn’t want to press my luck after that.

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No.

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Not sure why you’re down voted. Yes some definitely do. You could get around it by hosting your own VPN on 443 or something but some do lock it down.

Their network, their rules. Makes sense.

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where the hell do you work dude

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That’s fair, bur if your not using a VPN just don’t connect to wifi at all. Too easy to make a mistake

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The Tor website provides .apk files for Android, and there is an F-Droid release too. https://www.torproject.org/download/#android

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Guardian Repo on FDroid… preinstalled

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You must use the company Wi-Fi then you must use a VPN

The company VPN or the client VPN, sadly

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I mean if your personal device is attached to a work network use a always on personal VPN.

If you can’t for whatever reason then don’t connect to the wifi!

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