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Re:Cophone – Your Virtual Smartphone by rsync on Friday July 28, 2023 @01:17PM (#36910092)
Leave the work phone plugged in at office and forward messages to an email inbox (or personal phone SMS) using the SMSForwarder app.
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Re:Cophone – Your Virtual Smartphone by SkyPuncher on Friday July 28, 2023 @01:29PM (#36910272)
Can't do that. Breaks privacy barriers.
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Re:Cophone – Your Virtual Smartphone by ec109685 on Friday July 28, 2023 @10:45PM (#36916296)
How does a VM not break privacy barriers?
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Re:Cophone – Your Virtual Smartphone by numpad0 on Saturday July 29, 2023 @04:17AM (#36918078)
Maybe it means he is not allowed to send work data to personal devices?
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Re:Cophone – Your Virtual Smartphone by ec109685 on Sunday July 30, 2023 @11:40PM (#36938583)
Right, but then I am sure the company not going to allow him to run on some random company’s VMs.
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Re:Cophone – Your Virtual Smartphone by SkyPuncher on Saturday July 29, 2023 @12:31PM (#36921856)
I’m realizing I’m arguing in an implicit feature that isn’t being explicitly discussed.

I would expect this service to eventually offer an enterprise feature. Having my employer fully control a VM does not break any data barriers.

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Re:Cophone – Your Virtual Smartphone by bentcorner on Saturday July 29, 2023 @12:29AM (#36916932)
Probably the safest way to do this is to plug your work phone in a physically secure location and use scrcpy to interact with it over a remote desktop session to the pc/mac hosting it.
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