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Microsoft Teams is getting a controversial location tracking feature that users may hate (www.neowin.net)
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[–] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

grab a router and install OpenWRT onto it, and turn it into a wireless bridge. Use the router to connect to the office WiFi, and have a wired connection to your laptop

A setup like that would trip our IT security. I actually killed all the phones on our floor by doing a simple packet route they didn't recognize, they have the routers set to kill all the PoE and block all data when anything they don't recognize comes through.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    You have a network for employee’s personal phones and devices, correct? That still leads to the Internet, correct?

    I mean, the entire point of such a network is to keep outside devices off of internal networks that have sensitive data. And because the insides of large buildings can be absolutely sucky at receiving LTE/5G data connections, employees can and will do anything needed to ensure they still have connectivity on personal devices. So just connect the router/bridge to that network, and Teams will be appropriately sanitized and think you are still at home.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Teams will be appropriately sanitized and think you are still at home.

    I wouldn't count on that in our IT environment. The one constant there is: change. Whatever works one week, they'll screw around with it and make it different the week after that... I WFH and mostly on my own gear because getting things done with their supplied laptop is 50% fighting their ever-shifting "support."

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