If you own it, don't install a damn thing your employer demands. If they want security access on a device, they pay for it.
If you don't own it, don't use it for a damn thing that isn't work-related and use it minimally for that. "Yes sir" emails and submitting reports. That's it. Don't do research, don't surf the web, don't accept a single personal call, email, or text. They don't have any right to know anything that is not work related.
There's going to be an article one of these days in Business Insider or something saying "employees increasingly establishing secret outside-of-the-company communication channels and sharing trade secrets over them." And then the companies are going to get all pissy about "muh trade secritssssss" and issue nagging emails to the whole company not to set up Discords to evade their employee monitoring solution that they pay a gorillion dollars a year for. And because it was the CEO's idea, he can't just back down and admit it was wrong. He has to keep doubling down.
Considering all the classified, NatSec-related launches SpaceX is doing, I’m sure the DoD will be quite interested in understanding precisely what Musk’s logic was.
When searching for something on Google, you should include terms like “Reddit”, “superuser”, “Stack Overflow”, etc., to get better results. Because if you don't include them, the first page of Google looks like a bot-generated page. Of course, Google are ‘not quite happy’.
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