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Why YSK: It appears several Lemmy Instances are flagged as suspicious and at least 1 instance intentionally using the name of ransomware. A couple of the big enterprise monitoring suites (Fortiguard, ZScaler) will flag your account and may end up with you being pulled into an office for an explanation, or worse.

TL;DR: Keep browsing to your local instance at work for now.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I find it crazy that you can get in trouble for browsing the wrong websites. It's illegal where I live to track people's computers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Just don't use a work computer for anything but work. Use your personal cell phone and don't use their wifi.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Browsing personal sites, especially social media, on a work computer is insane

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why would people not just use their phones? I would never browse any social media on a work computer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I had a lady in the marketing department open a ticket with us many years ago when ILoveYou was running rampant and we had blocked yahoo mail, gmail, etc on our corporate network and she was PISSED because "I need to access that for my other job!". Yes, she put that in the ticket. That was a brief discussion with her manager and a resume generating event for her.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

"Resume generating event" - that took me a moment, but then I laughed

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This does not apply for most european users. Source: I am the one who gets these requests and anyone who isn't a judge gets jack shit. Go pound sand. Anything else would be illegal under privacy and work laws. Even police wont get ANYTHING (judge will reject it) if the crime in question isn't worth at least 2 years of jail time.

Suspected malware domains just get blocked, no further action will ever take place.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Stay off company resources when using technology for personal use.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Underrated comment right here...

Yall got phones jfc

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Don’t use company computers for personal stuff, it all gets logged and can be used against you at the very least as evidence that you weren’t working come performance reviews.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And the same goes for company wifi if you have to log in with your own username.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Even if you don't, there's plenty of different ways to identify a user on company wifi.

For example, have your cellphone named "Stephano's iPhone"? Narrows it down to the Stephanos working in range of that access point.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's fucking insane people don't know this in 2023.

Work computers are for work, and pretty much every employer monitors what you do on it.