"but you could probably live a pretty good Internet life, writing documents, sending emails, taking notes, chatting with people, and watching YouTube."
Cool. Live in a world of privacy violating spyware. How positively North Korean of them.
If you claim an employer can do whatever, kindly queue up to be launched into the sun.
@arstechnica Does everyone need continuous internet access on the job? What if access was instantly, automagically, enabled when a user did something requiring it, and immediately disabled when that action completed?
@arstechnica There's still always physical hacking such as the numerous devices that can be plugged into a USB port (including at the rear of a system where it might not be seen at all.) People WILL use their phones and such however. Will. Fighting that is like fighting against the ocean having waves and can only come back to bite them.
@arstechnica I know someone on this project at Google. The feedback was indeed "enthusiastic" but I think it was also messaged poorly internally. From what I understand (second hand) these are virtual environments that you can shell into and work within on any device. Yes they don't have internet or root by default (can be granted), but they're basically just VMs. It's not like they are giving out work laptops to employees with internet access disabled
@arstechnica we still need to know the #Microsoft patient zero/attack vector (the MS reference inside the Google story "somehow stole a cryptographic key")
@arstechnica didn't think anyone could beat companies that develop tech for remote work asking their own employees to come back to work in the office. Oh how wrong I was when an internet giant says this...
@arstechnica So does #Google have it's own private #Network connecting to employees' homes or do they just want to flex escalating commitment to their overpriced commercial office space leases?
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