Why YSK: It appears several Lemmy Instances are flagged as suspicious and at least 1 instance intentionally using the name of ransomware. A couple of the big enterprise monitoring suites (Fortiguard, ZScaler) will flag your account and may end up with you being pulled into an office for an explanation, or worse.

TL;DR: Keep browsing to your local instance at work for now.

  • @[email protected]
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    511 months ago

    So if you were, say, using a VPN on your personal phone at work on their internet, would you also get in trouble?

    • @fuzzzerd
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      511 months ago

      If it’s a personal device, at worst they would see you are using a VPN and maybe ask what’s up with that, but they can’t mitm you on your own device.

    • @[email protected]
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      411 months ago

      Why would you join your phone to the company wifi? Mobile data is cheap (at least where I am). I’ve never joined my personal phone to an employer’s wifi. At least not in the last five or so years.

      • ᗪᗩᗰᑎ
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        111 months ago

        cell reception is spotty where I work and there’s a guest WiFi option and they allow VPN. works Wi-Fi works for my use case.

      • @[email protected]
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        111 months ago

        Why would you join your phone to the company wifi? Mobile data is cheap (at least where I am).

        Where I am, I’m on prepaid. It’s not cost-effective to pay for a full plan (when eg.: I already have internet at home).