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1•Malfunction92•46s ago•0 comments

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1•blenderob•27m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Musks xAI pressed employees to install surveillance software on personal laptops

https://www.businessinsider.com/xai-pressed-workers-install-surveillance-software-personal-laptops-2025-7
67•c420•6mo ago

Comments

pinewurst•6mo ago
https://archive.ph/qUW2A
gammalost•6mo ago
Why would they not use a company laptop in the first place?

"They ran out" is no excuse

v5v3•6mo ago
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•6mo ago
I think this is like mass data labelers, including in other countries or other low cost areas.
alephnerd•6mo ago
> 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.

beng-nl•6mo ago
For those who, like me, couldn’t parse “VDI,” it likely means virtual desktop infrastructure, which makes sense - security concerns of using a personal laptop are largely mitigated if Remote Desktop sessions are used for corporate work and no local software js used for corporate work and the OS has limited visibility in corporate data.
buyucu•6mo ago
Who uses a Chromebook for dev work? No surprise employees want to bring in their own laptops.
nyarlathotep_•6mo ago
> The company supplies some workers with company-issued Chromebooks, but many workers use their personal devices for the role

How is this even a thing? Are there seriously employees at a "tech company" bringing their own hardware? This is madness

browningstreet•6mo ago
People willing to work for Musk are probably willing to put up with more adverse conditions than is usual or standard at other orgs.
b3ing•6mo ago
They are mostly visa workers so it’s not like they have much choice, if they don’t they go back to their country
cedws•6mo ago
I rarely see this talked about - that H1B inherently creates a power imbalance in favour of the employer. It enables them to stomp on workers’ rights and pay less. All according to plan I’m sure.
beng-nl•6mo ago
Not disagreeing with the imbalance, but I know about it (I don’t live in USA) because I’ve seen it discussed on HN and other discussion forums quite a few times.
rchaud•6mo ago
Seems to be an issue in the tech industry more so than elsewhere. H1Bs are common in investment banking, management consulting, science labs, university jobs, really any sector where foreign graduates of US universities are hired.
cbsks•6mo ago
I’m surprised that a “tech company” provides a Chromebook instead of a laptop.
ankurdhama•6mo ago
ChromeOS is more than enough for lots of roles. Even for devs (backend, web and android etc) it should be good enough if you have good enough CPU, RAM and storage.
atoav•6mo ago
Sure and water is enough for hydration so their cafeteria has no actual coffee or what.

If you'd force me (a dev used to work on a blazingly fast Linux machine) to use this I'd just be inclined to look for a job elsewhere. Not sure if that was in your interest as a corp.

bubblethink•6mo ago
Probably the most secure client system you can get these days. The purpose of the laptop is to ssh.
Asraelite•6mo ago
Do you not consider a Chromebook to be a type of laptop? Is that because of the form factor or the OS?
jofla_net•6mo ago
Not really, I was at a small one which allowed it, it was bliss, although I used a company one. In the end, when it folded, i bought it from them.
bravetraveler•6mo ago
It's not a great line to blur for either side of the business, IMO. Property issues all the way down with power imbalance for flavor. For brevity I'll gloss over the security/liability concerns for BYOD/them...

Here's my anecdote: had to prove I didn't use what was their hardware to create something I released for free. I lost more in frustration alone than that saved. Nevermind the postage.

Time and place matters, as always.

They can provide what they want to monitor. Now: I'll buy a discount device, I won't offer my own.

Quadruple for phones. Say the business wants to call outside of work. It can afford differential, payment for that device, and the plan to connect it. I'll still choose when it's on, human after all.

rsynnott•6mo ago
I mean, it's run by _Elon Musk_; I'm not sure why you'd expect it to be run competently.
aiddun•6mo ago
I'm under the impression from the article that these are for the people RLHFing the model, not the engineers
angst•6mo ago
> The company has said it will only use the system to monitor URL and application visits during designated work hours, according to the document. According to its website, Hubstaff can also track mouse movement and keystrokes.

> "This new tool serves to streamline work processes, provide clearer insights into daily tutoring activities, and ensure resources align with Human Data priorities," the company's human resources team said in a mass email to employees.

> The software, which requires workers to clock in and out, would not track activity on the laptop outside of work hours, the document said.

very well intended (smh)

ETH_start•6mo ago
A sensationalist headline intended to get clicks from the anti-Musk zeitgeist
moonshotideas•6mo ago
https://archive.is/qUW2A
kotaKat•6mo ago
I mean, they could just choose to work elsewhere, but they chose to be morally bankrupt to work at xAI, so they can just accept the software and move on?

This should be the least of their problems these days, given waves hands at Grok. The overinflated paychecks make up for the lack of ethics.

bn-l•6mo ago
Why is it “morally bankrupt” to work at xAi?