It's Facebook. You already know they use hundreds of sources of information to track and categorise people. Zuckerberg and CNBC just mentioned two.

That said, I expect you can fool Facebook for a while with high probability. You might need to commit fraud and/or tax evasion to do so, so that raises the bar.

Question: can you even work at Facebook without having an account and using it?

The biggest risk of leak would be during usage of their services like their app and/or website on personal devices. If you can work there while only using their issued work laptop it would be pretty easy to contain by sticking it behind a VPN router.

I've heard FB has their own version of FB for work, which is mandatory to have

> It's Facebook. You already know they use hundreds of sources of information to track and categorise people. Zuckerberg and CNBC just mentioned two.

To be fair I once interviewed at Facebook and to my surprise the CV the recruiter pulled was one I’d applied with three years ago, so the system isn’t all that foolproof.

Yes but on the other hand this anecdote highlights their talent for maintaining a dossier of your personal information spanning not only many types of sources but also many years.. :) / :(

You would also need to avoid any and every other way of revealing your location.

Less hard than you think.

I really just need a closet in SF with my own gear and off to the races.

It's a shame slavery doesn't exist any longer. I'd sell myself to a company owned by a shell company I control in a state where slavery is illegal and siphon all my income that way.

If someone is claiming to be local they just say report to some location on campus and badge in.

Just pray travel expenses never pop up I guess?

if you're a dev the chances of you incurring a travel expense is low.

Really? I'm a dev (although not at Facebook) and I travel for work several times a year. Also, all of the remote employees I've worked with have traveled to the office occasionally.

dunno i’ve been fully remote for 6 years now. Many reasons people get together. Several times a year is my experience. Would be a tough pill to swallow to have to secretly travel to town, get a hotel, all on my own dime. What a huge stress & pain in the ass.

edit: In fact, “get the team together quarterly” is, last I heard, pretty standard guidance for distributed teams. I think it’s a fair assumption if you have little experience working remote. There’s more travel involved than you think though.

Almost. Apps check if a phone is jailbroken, so that needs to be dealt with too.

Is it possible to nest VPNs, i.e. connect to a VPN in the location of the preferred fake home, then connect to Facebook's VPN through that? I genuinely know enough about VPNs to know if this is possible or not.

Yes. This kind of thing is generally called "tunneling", not "nesting". As applied here, "chaining" would make more sense.

Oops, I meant to say "genuinely don't know enough about VPNs". Too late to edit now...

That's only an issue if the use of a non-jailbroken/rooted phone is a requirement for doing the job. "I like my phone rooted/jailbroken" is a plausible excuse already.

They provide a biz phone for on-call and jail-breaking it is probably out of scope of what is permitted.

If you try hard enough, there are mobile carriers that will hand over the SIM's data session to a tunnel endpoint of your choice (via L2TP or IPsec).

There is always a way.

It's also tax fraud unless you fix that part.

Sounds hard