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Or the even worse era of trolling IRC chats looking for DCC bots and hoping your feeble attempts at security or obfuscation will hold. Ah, the good ol days.

Something something, "it's the moops!"

This is my favorite comment so far.

I'm glad to hear that the BYOD trend didn't take off in every country. Many of the companies would act like they were doing you a favor so you didn't have the "hassle" of carrying two phones around. Oh that is a hassle, but this was just them shoveling their costs onto the worker.

Every work phone, BYOD or not, has had the corporate profile stuff installed which already let them see most of everything. I just assumed this was more of the same. Shame on me for not reading the article.

Yeah, I had no choice on needing a phone for bring on call, but being only able to receive calls or SMS really cut down on the nonsense heh.

You would be mistaken if you think that every work phone is paid for by the employer. A lot of companies have a BYOD policy and still require loading their restrictive bullshit onto it. I have worked at two places like this and I refused to let them do it, but most went along with it. The funniest part if that they still wanted me on the on call rotation, but wouldn't pay for a decent device so they dug out an ancient Nextel phone for me to use. I have no idea how it still worked.

You can get a Nokia flip phone on Amazon for under $100. Before all the tariff BS it was more like $60. My daughter has been using one exclusively for about six months.