If I wanted to run a live linux on my company computer just to check up on personal emails and browse the web is there anyway they would know? I would be using Korora 20 on a USB drive.

Thanks

I do this on my corporate issued laptop. I had to mess with stuff in the bios which caused bitlocker to refuse to boot into windows. so I had to call desktop support to obtain the sequence of numbers for bit locker.

I've been cool for a few years. I haven't tried booting up fedora-live in the office.

Heh, I do this regularly on the desktops at work. Most of them still run Windows XP and are unpatched. Mind you, the connections still go through a firewall and I assume if I were to visit a forbidden IP address, it would be blocked. I assume that all my IP addresses are still monitored as well. If I really don't want that, then I'd have to ssh to a machine at home and browse from there.

Up until recently I did this often. I am required to take my work laptop everywhere (constant on-call) and booting up through all of the security and applications make boot take about 15 minutes to fully functional. I can boot to VSIDO or TINYCORE and be funtional in 120 seconds. I used this to keep all faceboot, linuxquestions, and g+ traffic from ever being staged on my company hard drive.

Alas, a few months ago they published a policy I had to agree to that no social networking would be done using company hardware. So now I use my personal laptop for those, and have stopped using the USB live-cd image with my work laptop.

While I did not use it at work for social networking, until I agreed to that policy I COULD have. I would have used a privacy VPN tool to tunnel my traffic, so no one could tell what I was connecting to or what my traffic looked like. There are linux distributions specificlly tailored for this purpose, but Windows can do it as well. Before you consider this use you should evaluate your work policies and what agreements you have made, and make sure you are honestly keeping to the letter of your word. Never compromise your values.

Agreed!

At one time live media never mounted local drives. Sadly some of them mount local drives and they may put a few files on the internal drive. Recycle bin shows up a lot.

Thank you for the replies. I think I will just stick with my personal phone for personal web use. If I need more power or something with with a larger screen I will look into a personal laptop. I have been eyeing them system 76 laptops.
Thanks again.

My company would allow me to do almost anything as long as I ask them first. Did you ask the IT department if it was OK to do this?


There are many good distro's that work OK and I know don't leave files. Try LPS. http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=lps

I am the IT department. My main concern was if my live Linux OS would keep the integrity of my Windows business environment.I don't have a personal laptop and usually use my phone for such actions. Needed a second opinion. A re-image would be a nightmare.

I'd use LPS or other live media that doesn't auto mount or even doesn't let you mount the local hard drive.

Anyway thanks for the resolution.

MX-14 (mxlinux.org) has some cool usb with persistence features, and it doesn't mount your internal drives unless you supply a root password (at least by default). I do this all the time at work, but I'm not worried about being tracked. My MX stick doesn't mess at all with the PC hardware.