- cross-posted to:
- privacy@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- privacy@lemmy.ml
Specifically, Teams will detect if the user has connected to the company’s own Wi-Fi and automatically set the work location accordingly to the respective building.
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Implementing useless features and fixing nothing since 1975.
Actually true. I have no idea what features that were actual improvements, at least since windows 7.
Windows is the same shit it always was. A total mess of slow, ugly programs and lots of annoying notifications and stream of updates that makes the system slower and slower.
Dont forget the constant shuffling of buttons and menus so that you are constantly learning everything for the first time and can never become proficient at using their software.
Where in the FUCK in Outlook currently is an option to use preformatted text? It’s not a style I could pick nor I could find an option to make my own. I send copy-paste from terminal every now and then and if it’s formatted like normal text it’s nearly useless. It used to be a text style I could pick, but this new-new-new-classic-new outlook doesn’t have it anymore.
I mean… Is it really spying? Your company can detect which AP or Switch you’re connected to (or if you’re using a VPN from home), so they do have that data anyways.
There’s a huge difference between a piece of data being recorded in a SIEM somewhere and the data being displayed up front all of the time for micro managers to pounce on.
yes
just wait till you learn about how accurate hot desking software is.
Jesus Christ, if you didn’t think your company knew if you were in one building or another before today, you’re a fucking idiot.
All it does it checks in which location/building you are. While moderately intrusive I cannot really see a straightforward relation to home working - surely people don’t pretend to be in the office when they are working from home?
Situation may be different if you wish to go longer term abroad without informing your employer who thinks you are still in the country, just working remotely. But I can see it as a potential legal issue anyway.
Yeah, that’s so much effort, I’d want to be paid extra for it.
This seems like surveillance disguised as a mostly useless feature. If you are in the office and logging into a video call, you’re probably using the hardware in a conference room and not your own laptop. That hardware will already display the room you are calling from to everyone on the call.
The only reason for this feature is to tattle on people who aren’t where they say they are.
Teams usually always runs in the background
Teams is so slow and is missing so many quality of life features.
Just keep moving the Wifi APs for maximum chaos and open bug reports to Mircosoft since location service is unreliable.
Fun fact, you can use most of teams through
teams.microsoft.comDo yourself and your coworkers a favor and minimize how often Teams is running. If anyone asks just say the desktop version was buggy - no one who has used teams will deny it.
There’s a whole bunch of ways to do that already. This isn’t really new
Not for the average spineless middle manager. This puts the data in their hands without having to get any approval from anyone in IT
Luckily this kind of data is illegal to use in Norway
So if I’m reading this right, won’t a VPN totally fuck with the system? Cause its a nessessity for some to get into local networking.
No, because this isn’t looking at networking, it’s looking at wifi access points
So if I’m using something lime Cisco secure client this bypasses the default security? I’m still missing something here.
Yes. Teams is software that runs on your computer. Based on what’s described here, it’s now going to ask the wifi driver what access points are available
Then it will send that info through the VPN along with the voice and video
How does that work when I remote into a Windows Virtual Desktop in Azure and use that for teams? This is probably 80% of my teams use.
Or use a Linux device? Will it tell teams my networking information?
It theoretically could through the azure remote desktop client since Windows owns every part of that stack and has no concept of not stealing all data. It probably doesn’t because it would involve coordination between several teams
It could work on Linux, but probably doesn’t because the Linux version of software tends to have more autonomy and better priorities
Guess we will find out!
Just create a wifi mirroring the one you use at work at home, done.
I guess the only part of this that is remarkable is that they are doing it with Teams.
I don’t connect to the company wifi at all. No good can come from that.
I love company Wi-Fi. I love company. pays my money. connect directly to my tight holes
- No way it’s accurate to a single room
- This would have to be set up by the company. There’s no way to automatically detect room from a specific AP or whatever.
You are correct, but you would have to read more that the title of this post to know that. To copy what op already cited:
set the work location accordingly to the respective building.
It will only tell you in which building the person is, not in which room.
And yes, the company still has to tell teams which building has which Wi-Fi SSN. So this is completely on the company to enable and configure
Oops read it slightly wrong :!
Sure there is.
Keep a database of bssid’s and their gps coordinates.
Triangulate your location by the bssids around you and their signal strength.
You can use the netsh command in windows to see this info. You can use an app like geomac to see the location info of bssid’s from google, apple, Microsoft, and others.
