Ask HN: Playing multiplayer games while BYOD WFH

Re:Ask HN: Playing multiplayer games while BYOD WFH by tubularhells on Sunday February 14, 2021 @06:23AM (#26131404)

I had a similar BYOD situation since years back. I just worked out of a virtual machine on my pc. They cannot tell what's happening outside the VM, so they have no idea if you are playing a quick match to relax. :)

Linux host, window guest. When I left I just destroyed the VM and that was it.

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Re:Ask HN: Playing multiplayer games while BYOD WFH by embeddedsystems on Sunday February 14, 2021 @01:32PM (#26134792)

It isn't that I'm playing a game, it's that game anticheat these days will collect and send so much PII 24/7 even when there is no game running, and the anticheat service is NOT removed when you uninstall the game that loaded it. And of course the anticheat service blocks VMs / will ban you if it detects VMware, VirtualBox, etc.

I'm wondering what happens to company data that's been exfiltrated by these anticheat services or how it's protected

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Re:Ask HN: Playing multiplayer games while BYOD WFH by tubularhells on Monday February 15, 2021 @06:04AM (#26141541)

I use Linux so I have no idea about these problems.

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