[HN Gopher] Musks xAI pressed employees to install surveillance ...
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       Musks xAI pressed employees to install surveillance software on
       personal laptops
        
       Author : c420
       Score  : 25 points
       Date   : 2025-07-13 19:47 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.businessinsider.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.businessinsider.com)
        
       | pinewurst wrote:
       | https://archive.ph/qUW2A
        
       | gammalost wrote:
       | Why would they not use a company laptop in the first place?
       | 
       | "They ran out" is no excuse
        
       | v5v3 wrote:
       | Elon Musk declared that none of his employees could work
       | remotely. So this is an admission that he has failed to achieve
       | this goal.
        
         | jerrygenser wrote:
         | I think this is like mass data labelers, including in other
         | countries or other low cost areas.
        
       | alephnerd wrote:
       | > The company supplies some workers with company-issued
       | Chromebooks, but many workers use their personal devices for the
       | role
       | 
       | This is the crux of the issue - xAI allows employees to use
       | personal laptops for corporate work.
       | 
       | This is a MASSIVE breach of internal security operations. Either
       | mandate no personal laptop use or require VDI to access corporate
       | resources.
       | 
       | > In the lead up to the roll-out, tutors were initially told that
       | the company had run out of Chromebooks, and it was unclear when
       | they would be restocked, people familiar with the guidance told
       | BI
       | 
       | This is just pure sloppiness from their IT org, who are likely
       | dealing with some amount of micromanagement from up the
       | leadership chain.
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       | It really isn't that expensive to procure corporate laptops from
       | an MSP like WWT, especially for a firm like xAI that is trying to
       | raise a round at a $200B valuation. There's a reason Musk was
       | managed out of PayPal fairly early. Even Peter Thiel couldn't
       | stand him.
        
       | another_twist wrote:
       | 23points and one the front page ? Who cares about an irrelevant
       | social media site and its Ketamine addict CEO ?
        
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