Today, I just got news that our company is mandating that everyone installs spy software on their computers. As I am not going to install such software on my computer, it has been said to me that if we don’t find some solution, I will get fired.

To be honest, I was thinking about changing jobs anyway, so I don’t mind that much, but I am not sure what to do now.

I work in IT, so I have quite a lot of job opportunities, but most of them are something that is mostly harmful to society.

So I am considering two options: Try to find some meaningful job in IT (which is likely to be very hard).

Find some nice good paying job where I can work, ideally part-time, and focus on working on open source software in my free time.

Not really sure what to do, does anyone have any experience with similar situation?

  • ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Does the spy software need to be installed on your own personal device, or on a work provided computer? If it’s on a personal computer then you can request that they issue a company computer to if nothing else just buy some time.

    What exactly does the spy software entail?

    But I would second that you start job searching IMMEDIATELY. You do not have time to lose.

    • Prologue7642@lemmygrad.mlOPEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      Thankfully, I can afford to be without a job for a while, and they are trying to accommodate me to some extent. If they fire me, they won’t get subsidies for about a million euros.

      Spy software would monitor all traffic disk logs etc. Hard to tell for sure, but I certainly wouldn’t want it on my device.

      I work exclusively from my personal device, and I would need the software to be installed whenever I connect to our VPN (which is very often). I could do something like forward thing through another machine, but at that point I would be lying. From what I’ve seen if there was an attack they would be probably be going after me which is something I would like to avoid.