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re: Using employer’s wifi on personal phone and tablet
Posted on 1/23/24 at 6:36 am to Tiger Prawn
Posted on 1/23/24 at 6:36 am to Tiger Prawn
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If the company was really worried about employees dicking around on the internet though, they’d just have the IT department block the websites people were wasting time on. Lots of company networks have social media websites, Youtube, Amazon, etc blocked on the company wifi network.
Or they don't think anyone would be fricking stupid enough to login and watch movies over their wi-fi during work hours, while at work.
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Lots of company networks have social media websites, Youtube, Amazon, etc blocked on the company wifi network.
Which carries an additional expense that shouldn't ne necessary.
Posted on 1/23/24 at 7:07 am to LSUfan4444
quote:No it doesn’t. Most home routers nowadays come with parental controls that allow you to block certain websites. I can go into my router settings and add websites to the blocked list on my kids devices in about 2 minutes.
Which carries an additional expense that shouldn't ne necessary
You’re telling me that a company who deems it necessary to have an in-house IT staff that monitors network usage wouldn’t already be providing said IT staff with security tools that can at least do what my $100 router from Best Buy can?
ETA: not saying it’d be a good idea for OP to be streaming HBO at work. But I don’t see how the IT department will be able to know its him if he’s streaming from a personal device and said device name isn’t something personally identifying. If all his IT department has to work with is “iPhone 13” as a device name and the IP/MAC address, they can’t tie it to a specific employee unless that employee is the only one in the office at a particular time or someone actually witnesses them streaming at work.
This post was edited on 1/23/24 at 7:13 am
Posted on 1/23/24 at 7:13 am to LSUfan4444
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they don't think anyone would be fricking stupid enough to login and watch movies over their wi-fi during work hours, while at work.
That's not really how security works. They don't make assumptions that you are smart enough to not frick around, they protect anyway.
My rule of thumb with some common sense, if they aren't blocking it, it's probably safe. That's the rule for my work PC, but I use it for 99% work purposes, I may Google something I know is safe so I don't have to grab my phone.
Cell I stay off company networks. Now that I work from home, I will even disconnect my phone from WiFi while my work PC is connected to VPN if I'm searching something NSFW.
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