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Not that you guys need the reminder, but your work sees all your browser history and you may not even be able to delete it if you wanted to (lemmy.ca)

submitted 2 years ago by t0fr@lemmy.ca to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] jet@hackertalks.com 82 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Everybody has a cell phone nowadays. There's no excuse not to use your cell phone for private stuff. In fact don't use the company Wi-Fi. You must use the company Wi-Fi then you must use a VPN

But no excuse anymore not to use your phone, you don't need to use the word computer to browse, send emails, flirt, whatever

[–] t0fr@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

Don't most work Wifi networks prevent VPN use?

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 16 points 2 years ago

This has not been my experience

[–] vox@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

then spin up your own wireguard instance and connect to it?

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

If only it was that easy...

Tried that. And openvpn tun+tap configs, Various ports incl 443, even shadowsocks. None of it gets through.

[–] EmbeddedEntropy@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Use Tailscale. Much easier to configure and manage than raw WireGuard.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 points 2 years ago

Mine does. They also keep an eye on it because I had gotten through it and that only worked a few days before it was blocked too. Didn't want to press my luck after that.

[–] AnonymousLemming@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

No.

[–] ninpnin@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

where the hell do you work dude

[–] AbsolutelyNotCats@lemdro.id 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

You must use the company Wi-Fi then you must use a VPN

The company VPN or the client VPN, sadly

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 6 points 2 years ago

I mean if your personal device is attached to a work network use a always on personal VPN.

If you can't for whatever reason then don't connect to the wifi!

[–] BitSound@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

And if you don't have a VPN set up, use Tor on your phone:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.torproject.torbrowser

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/onion-browser/id519296448

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 6 points 2 years ago

That's fair, bur if your not using a VPN just don't connect to wifi at all. Too easy to make a mistake

[–] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 years ago

The Tor website provides .apk files for Android, and there is an F-Droid release too. https://www.torproject.org/download/#android

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

Guardian Repo on FDroid... preinstalled