Stop using your work laptop or phone for personal stuff, because I know you are

Re:Stop using your work laptop or phone for personal stuff, ... by Buttons840 on Thursday June 24, 2021 @07:20PM (#27625183)

Is it an Android? How does that work? Is it a special permission or something?

I've allowed Slack on my personal phone. It has no permissions according to the Android OS (beyond permission to use the network, which, of course, can't be denied least Google lose ad revenue). I don't think it can wipe my phone. I hope it can't wipe my phone?

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Re:Stop using your work laptop or phone for personal stuff, ... by SilverRed on Thursday June 24, 2021 @09:58PM (#27626352)

MDM is kind of a super admin feature on Android and iOS which allows for all kinds of things normal apps can never access. It's used by companies to manage company owned devices so they can do things like reset the password and remove the apple id lock when an employee leaves.

It's not that slack can wipe your phone, but that (it sounds like) slack can detect the presence of the company MDM setup which can wipe your phone and lock you out of the app if it is not detected.

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Re:Stop using your work laptop or phone for personal stuff, ... by jcun4128 on Thursday June 24, 2021 @07:42PM (#27625353)

I didn't install it. After 5/6 I'm done with work. I don't use work devices for personal use/vice versa.

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