Suddenly, the perk of being given a phone at work is not as good as it might seem.
Since when is a work phone a perk. They have horrible battery performance, only function between 9 and 5 and call quality is absolute fuckin shit.
A work phone is a perk because it means you don’t have to install Teams, Slack, and a bunch of proprietary nonsense you’ve never heard of onto your personal phone.
Me over here having to provide my own work phone because BYOD. At least it’s my old phone I upgraded from, so the cost is already sunk.
another bullshit Forbes headline…
how many people would have clicked on this if the title had used the term “on your work phone” like the first sentence of the article does?
GrapheneOS. Use a work profile. Segregate your work from your personal information. As far as the employer is concerned, they have full control over your device. They can even send a wipe command to it and it would only affect the work partition, leaving your personal data alone.
My favorite tool for managing this is an app called Shelter. Graphene has robust profiling support, but I don’t want to have to swap in and out of something to see info. Shelter allows you to clone apps from your main profile to your work profile. You don’t even have to set up Google Play Services with an account if you don’t want.
Yeah… having to reprovision a phone because it just got reformatted is going to raise a red flag. And if you are installing a rogue OS on your work phone to prevent your employer from seeing what you are doing… I actually side with them when they fire your ass.
Your nonsense makes sense if it is a personal device that you are using for work purposes. Which… I strongly oppose for a range of reasons. If your work wants you “on call” then they can provide a device. Otherwise you can never be off call.
Tell me you don’t understand the OS without saying you don’t understand the OS.
Ah. So graphene DOES have a system where it takes your entire existing OS, shrinks all the partitions on disk, installs itself around that, AND prevents the monitoring software from reporting that your 512 GB device is now actually a 128 GB one?
Well color me surprised.
Or, you know, more likely you end up wiping the existing OS by effectively factory resetting it. And then you ping the management software server saying “I need to reinstall your spyware” which triggers a flag that IT may or may not care about. Similarly, said spyware now wonders why your phone’s storage shrunk so massively and raises another flag.
Are you mental?
Considering I have to deal with these kinds of security concerns on the regular as part of my professional life… kind of.
But you are just switching to ad hominem because your non sequitor “gimme updoots” response to a thread title is nonsense and you can’t admit that. So… I strongly encourage you to wipe your work phone and install graphene with an isolated partition for google/work android and see what happens.
>Microsoft triggered a viral furor when it revealed a Teams update to tell your company when you’re not at work.
This is the funniest thing, people mad that Teams tracks if you’re actually doing work lol
