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Re:Tell HN: My kid's school installed spyware and I can't re... by jeroenhd on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @04:34AM (#30916604)
On Windows, settings and software can be enrolled remotely the moment you hook your machine up to an MDM portal, just like on chromeOS. Windows doesn't include some of the functionality ChromeOS includes, but your employer can definitely manage settings like your standard browser if they choose to. The can also enforce that all software you run is signed, is run from specific locations on the system that you may no longer have access to and they enable Bitlocker with a specific backup key.

Most companies either choose not to implement any of this, or simply do not know they can implement this. Do not sign into your personal devices with your work account on anything but an isolated browser (modern Windows has a sandbox built in!) or you might discover the hard way what kind of possibilities remote AD allows for.

Windows does prompt you to accept that the account can manage your device, but so does ChromeOS. Denying MDM may cause the login to fail if they automatically rescind any tokens that don't get MDM access on your device.

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