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Re:Tell HN: My kid's school installed spyware and I can't re... by gernb on Monday April 04, 2022 @11:39PM (#30915062)
Agreed, domain admins can also lock down Windows, iOS, Android, and MacOS.

The school is effectively making the computer a terminal into their system. Their system, their rules.

I know the OP won't like this answer but the OP should buy their kid another computer for their non-school activities. Of course they could also complain to their school/district to change the polices. Personally, I'm used to it. I have a personal computer for my own use and a corp computer that's managed by corp and is locked down. I don't complain the corp computer is locked down (except when it gets in the way of doing my actual job). For all personal stuff I use my personal computer.

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Re:Tell HN: My kid's school installed spyware and I can't re... by ryan_j_naughton on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @01:53AM (#30915709)
That corp computer is owned by your employer. If instead you are a consultant who does work for several clients on your own machine, then it would be unreasonable for them to lockdown your personal machine. Instead, if they want you to use a more secure solution, they should provide the computer.
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Re:Tell HN: My kid's school installed spyware and I can't re... by piyush_soni on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @02:55AM (#30916057)
In my company setting up the office email on our personal phone is optional. But if we choose to do that, they install this entirely new 'profile' with work apps and controlling software on that in the name of security. I chose not to install it, but some would surely do it. Probably no case can be made against them as they don't force their employees to install mail on their phones.
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Re:Tell HN: My kid's school installed spyware and I can't re... by scambier on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @09:45AM (#30918904)
I did that for convenience (though now I removed it), but the work profile seemed to be well compartmentalized from the personal part, and there was a strong emphasis on this fact before the installation process. If they were to wipe it, only the work profile would be affected. I fortunately never had to try it...
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Re:Tell HN: My kid's school installed spyware and I can't re... by staticassertion on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @02:13AM (#30915817)
Right, but if you add your account to their organization so that you can get onto their network dont be surprised when they push policies.
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Re:Tell HN: My kid's school installed spyware and I can't re... by rejectfinite on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @08:49AM (#30918293)
No but if you add their MDM to your personal PC they can push policy to it.
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Re:Tell HN: My kid's school installed spyware and I can't re... by 0xBDB on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @03:15PM (#30923594)
"The school is effectively making the computer a terminal into their system."

I agree with this. If you had an rdp / citrix / ssh session to your employer you'd expect them to control what's on the other end. A Chromebook on which you're using a work/school account is much closer to that experience than a PC, but with the lines unfortunately much more blurred.

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