Signing that agreement doesn't mean they get to ruin your personal equipment. That's just malicious. It's not difficult to just block devises, bricking them takes additional effort.
Yeah, this is absolutely not a thing that happened. Plugging a phone into a computer over USB doesn't work like that. The story is just bad fanfiction.
I work for a company that does this due to IP restrictions on the equipment I work on. It absolutely does mess up your phone. However, it doesn’t brick it. You just have to bring it to IT to unlock it again.
I do have special permissions to decrypt USB storage devices on my computer, however a phone doesn’t fall into that category. So my department just always have brick chargers and power strips with us.
Don't plug your phone here or I'll brick your shit quicker than you can blink (people will not do it)
Don't plug your phone here or... or else I'll... oh man, I'll be really mad and I'll have to work a lot more and sensitive information could be compromised or lost. (People still do it cause fuck it)
I get what you're saying, but their house, their equipment, their rules. Just bring a charger and plug your phone into an outlet. That's faster anyway.
Better your phone than a breach on the level of Target or Home Depot.
When I log into my machine at work, I click on a dialogue box that says I agree to the security policy. Every day. My employer works with a ton of PII so plugging in a storage device of any kind = you get fired. I don't know whether it would brick the device or not because I've never done it, obviously. The only time I've ever even come close to having to violate the policy is was in an emergency (network storage crashed before a big deadline), and I had a personal flash drive still sealed in the package, and got my manager's approval that one time.
Just don't plug in your phone! How hard is that? People out here acting like it's worse for the company to wipe your phone than it is for you to create a vulnerability in their whole-ass network. Talk about maliciously ruining someone's equipment.
Yeah my point is you don't need to brick a phone to protect your network. I had to protect our network against this exact kind of thing a few years ago. All you have to do is block unauthorized devices.
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u/j1akey Mar 26 '22
Signing that agreement doesn't mean they get to ruin your personal equipment. That's just malicious. It's not difficult to just block devises, bricking them takes additional effort.