You think nobody's logged into their personal spotify on their work computer? All those guys wearing headphones in the office have brought in CDs to play in their laptop CD drives?
And that business traveller away from their partner and kids for a week+ isn't going to video call them? Or watch some netflix in their hotel room in the evening?
That's so unrealistic, you could write IT security policy for a Fortune 100 company :)
Why would I use a device to do personal things that they MITM everything I do on it? Privacy is too important to me to give it away like that. I'm sure all traffic on the corporate network is logged. Why open myself up for grounds for termination if my company hits hard times and wants to lay people off?
It was a public case, but the essentially unanimous Supreme Court opinion in City of Ontario v. Quon [0, 2010] shows what expectations of privacy you should have on any work devices -- none.
Reasonable or limited private use of a work computer remains private.
https://edps.europa.eu/data-protection/data-protection/refer...
Been in the industry for a while now, no one cares if you pull out your phone. Generally, people treat others like adults not children.
I've worked for large media companies where this is exactly the only way to have music available. The production network was blocked from accessing the www. To ensure content wasn't pirated, the original media had to be used. No CD-Rs were allowed. Personal devices were kept in lockers outside the restricted areas, so no streaming from them either.
Email was from a remote session. If you were emailed an attachment necessary for production work, there was an approved workflow to scan the data and then make it available to the production network.
So, while you were trying to be sarcastic, there are networks that are set up exactly like you thought didn't exist because it was too outlandish.
I refuse to carry more than one phone or one laptop, and I sure ain’t brining a personal device into a country I wouldnt go to on vacation.
Footgun, but maybe tolerable with your chosen threat model.
Even companies with these policies preinstall Spotify on work computers.
I don't think anyone thinks that. No one also thinks logging into a personal account on a device owned by someone else gives you any claim of ownership over it.
The computer belongs to the company. You will do what the company says you need to with their computer.