But you’re the one describing a piece of software they are asking you to install as a condition of employment as a ‘hostile agent’.

Feels like the layer of cynicism is already there.

Not on my part. Not with the people in the company I usually deal with.

When a new manager I don't know send me an email to install some "agent" from a company I have never heard about, and that company turns out to have terms and conditions from hell (like references to undisclosed terms and conditions they want me to accept) - then I label that thing, in my mind, as a "hostile agent". It's not something that will ever get access to my lan. It's something I don't even want in a VM, because it may know how to escape from a VM.

That's not cynicism. That's risk assessment.

Well said, and good luck with your problem. These workarounds are a flag one is in the wrong place. I recently left the job where I did the two-pis hack.

It's interesting that both the school and the job "security agent" ran on Linux on ARM. I would expect these things to be Windows-only, or at least x86-only.