I’ve taken smartphones and laptops, given for work but then never returned when leaving. Nothing permanent for hosting but I have used our infra for games and file sharing.
No, I’m not stupid. Also technically everything you create on company time and/or company resources no longer belongs to you.
I did have a boss once (software development) who hosted his own website on the company servers. Not 100% sure if that was ever green lit by the CEO (maybe, maybe not). But I was really annoyed when the server had issues due to that private site, when I didn’t have access to the code to fix them.
When I need to run multiple vms, work laptop is much stronger than personal laptop and there is usually no personal data related so sure. I’ve also used the only (work) iPhone I have for Apple related things, like using apple books, which is admittedly stupid but I consider anything I get from there single use either way and not particularly private either.
No! I used to worked at Hooli and I was developing this awesome compression algorithm in my free time. However I always used my own laptop. Except maybe one day when in was in the shop for repairs, but I barely did anything that day, I think. Shouldn’t be a problem.
I’m allowed to use my company’s laptop for private purposes as long as it doesn’t have negative impact on work (like installing mallicious or unlicensed software). I don’t use that priviledge a lot but I store some private backups on the company’s OneDrive.
I got a company to install an extra consumer grade internet connection with a different ISP on top of the main (already redundant) business one.
Sold it to them as being best for redundancy and to make sure that if sync traffic between our 6 locations was heavy, it wouldn't impact the main line.
The main line was actually more than sufficient to handle 100x the heaviest traffic we ever had. We were right next to a university, which got us a hookup to the national backbone on fiber (this was in the age of T1 and T3 lines being the norm, 2 of those 6 locations had to make due with 256KB lines), so it was rock stable, blistering fast and because it was backbone connected, utterly and completely unrestricted and unmonitored by third party.
But the advantage of consumer lines in that period was that cable and DSL were starting to become common for consumers, at speeds comparable to most business internet lines. These also usually had dynamic IPs.
This was simply so my and my colleagues internet and at the time Napster traffic wouldn't show up on the traffic logs and wouldn't be identifiable by our official IP range :p
I’ve taken a PC that was laying around at work and donated it to a non-profit I’m involved with.
Was a bit surprised to find there was a Proxmox server installed with a customer’s IP, but I just wiped it.
My colleagues back in the early bitcoin and cryptocurrency days were mining across any spare infra and customer servers they could get their hands on. Back when you could do it with just CPU.
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