What kind of imbecile does personal stuff in a company device? We are not talking about poor people, we are talking about people who have money enough to have their own personal devices.
Of course I aim to respect the security rules of my company. I trust my company. I wouldn’t enjoy working for a company that I wouldn’t trust with my browser cookies.
The laws are also on my side in my jurisdiction. I cannot be fired simply because I did something my company didn’t enjoy on the company laptop. They need a really good reason.
Getting fired is not the risk you are running, getting all your personal data exposed by any civil suit the company gets hit with is the risk.
Exposure is the risk, not firing.
Okay, lets talk about something more likely: your communications are not private - when you connect to an https URL you expect that your password is never in the clear.
With most organisations I have worked with/for, they almost always perform MitM on all TLS connections, and it works seamlessly (i.e. without you knowing) because their certificate is on the machine.
Only the very small and/or very poorly-run organisations aren't doing this, because unless they do the MitM, the network tools they use to detect malicious activity on their network cannot do Deep Packet Inspection (tools such as Darktrace).
It's exceedingly unlikely that the password you used to log into your bank account from your work computer is indecipherable to your network operators. It may as well be in the clear within the network.
When I was an intern in college and was much poorer, I also was guilty of the same…
Unless you watch free movies on YT or torrent stuff, of course
Grand assertion. Where's your supporting cite? To be clear before goalposts are moved, the context is external optical media drives---a peripheral commonly issued along side laptops without one---not USB mass storage devices.
Wait, _is_ it? In this future year of 2023? I haven’t seen this as common practice for at least a decade.
(The sort of higher-security-stance companies who disable USB drive support will also generally disable support for external optical drives, because why take the risk?)