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Re:Google illegally spied on workers before firing them, US ... by staticassertion on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @04:31PM (#25281913)
Seems weird. We have MDM at my company and there's no way I can "spy" on your phone or otherwise perform rootkit like work. It all goes through a work profile, which is isolated from your personal apps/ information.
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Re:Google illegally spied on workers before firing them, US ... by novok on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @10:30PM (#25285019)
If you can push and run an executable, you can theoretically root a phone or laptop whenever you need to. It doesn't even need to be root, a background process accessing the right things can be enough. It's not rootkit right now, but rootkit later.
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