electronic isolation

[cellio]

Starting tomorrow, I will not be able to access personal email at work. Many web sites are blocked (including all known to offer email); LJ access is unknown. You should assume delays in responding to, or even seeing, email, interesting web sites, national news... If you have my cell-phone number, you can use that to reach me if it's time-sensitive. If you think you should have my cell-phone number and you don't, send me email (which will, err, be delayed, so don't wait until you need it).

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Another reason for a laptop

[astroprisoner.livejournal.com]

I'm in the same situation at work. All personal e-mail sites are blocked, although LJ access is allowed. (Their concern is incoming e-mail attachments.) Many many many sites are firewalled as well, I'd venture to say that about half the things I click on here on LJ end up returning the "Access Denied" screen.

I'm lucky, though. In addition to my desktop, I was issued a laptop for travel. The laptop has a modem, and I can dial in through my office phone. Thus one more reason for having a laptop.

Re: Another reason for a laptop

[cellio]

At one point there was talk of giving some of us laptops as secondary machines (for travel, because sometimes you just need another CPU available, to support a different OS, etc), but it didn't happen.

That said, it might be a violation of their policy to connect a company laptop to a non-company network (like in a hotel) without specific permission and (unknown-to-me) precautions. Otherwise there's risk that you'll go off the network, get infected with something, and bring it back onto the company network.