Today, I just got news that our company is mandating that everyone installs spy software on their computers. As I am not going to install such software on my computer, it has been said to me that if we don’t find some solution, I will get fired.
To be honest, I was thinking about changing jobs anyway, so I don’t mind that much, but I am not sure what to do now.
I work in IT, so I have quite a lot of job opportunities, but most of them are something that is mostly harmful to society.
So I am considering two options: Try to find some meaningful job in IT (which is likely to be very hard).
Find some nice good paying job where I can work, ideally part-time, and focus on working on open source software in my free time.
Not really sure what to do, does anyone have any experience with similar situation?
Does the spy software need to be installed on your own personal device, or on a work provided computer? If it’s on a personal computer then you can request that they issue a company computer to if nothing else just buy some time.
What exactly does the spy software entail?
But I would second that you start job searching IMMEDIATELY. You do not have time to lose.
Thankfully, I can afford to be without a job for a while, and they are trying to accommodate me to some extent. If they fire me, they won’t get subsidies for about a million euros.
Spy software would monitor all traffic disk logs etc. Hard to tell for sure, but I certainly wouldn’t want it on my device.
I work exclusively from my personal device, and I would need the software to be installed whenever I connect to our VPN (which is very often). I could do something like forward thing through another machine, but at that point I would be lying. From what I’ve seen if there was an attack they would be probably be going after me which is something I would like to avoid.
You could install the spy software on a vm and do things that require the spy software running on the VM