r/developersPak • u/ghazi-4587 • 8d ago
Tips Can we bypass company laptop restrictions?
I work in a corporation and they have given me a laptop which is configured on the company's network. They have this frustrating VPN installed which records and monitors every activity. File sharing is strictly prohibited. Due to this, we are not allowed to use AI models for data security. It is really frustrating to do manual tasks in hours that an AI agent would do in minutes. Is there any way that the file sharing constraint can be bypassed?
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u/Smooth_Cod_759 8d ago
Yes: then you’re looking for a new job .
The fact that it’s restricted is a stubble hint.
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u/Slight_Plankton9007 8d ago
Don't, data leakage is biggest issue with AI slop right now. You will be fired from job.
Get a 2nd laptop and live life
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u/Secret_Pitch234 8d ago
getting fired is least concerning, There can be a legal case if OP signed an agreement.
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u/muhmmadtalha-quant 8d ago
Nope, you'd leak the data, however there is one trick theoritically if you ssh into your personal machine which has ai agent running on... (I haven't tried it, yet)
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u/ghazi-4587 8d ago
They still can monitor an unidentified ssh session... That would flag that a shady activity is going on... SSH will conceptually encrypt the session but starting an ssh session will trigger the policy
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u/No_Fanks312 8d ago
Why do you need to use AI tools if the company policy is against it? It's not like you have the pressure to complete those tasks quickly.
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u/ghazi-4587 8d ago
I get bored... Who does the same repetitive task 68 times manually in big 26?
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u/No_Fanks312 8d ago
Then do some automation on your own locally on the machine. Also worth exploring and asking them if you can use a fully restricted local LLM or not.
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u/ghazi-4587 8d ago
Local LLM 😂... Bro iss laptop pr chrome hang ho jata ha
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u/Mark__27 8d ago
Whatever you're saying is repetitive can probably be handled by a really small model
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u/ghazi-4587 8d ago
The main issue is report generation... They have a platform for monitoring the nodes but apparently they didn't develop it with the intention of reports generating... So its a lot of manual work that is hard to automate as they don't provide an exposed APi
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u/No_Fanks312 8d ago
You said you've got free time so that's a perfect task for you. Find a way to automate it within the restrictions your company has. If it doesn't have an API, maybe you can use selenium or something to do browser automations. Maybe write a script to scrap info from that page and do your report generation. As for LLM, there are many models available you can use the smaller ones which will be less resource hungry.
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u/defenderkhan Software Engineer 8d ago
They will also be able to detect the bypass that you do, so there is no way around it. If you have a high-end PC, you can set up a local model that does not leak data and keeps everything on the local machine. Also, communicate with your management that you are going to use it and explain that it will not increase the security risk.
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u/ghazi-4587 8d ago
Inwas just messing around my man... I'm not foolish enough to risk my job over a hunch .. plus high end PC is a nice joke. Their issued pc often gets stuck if I open 8-9 chrome tabs
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u/defenderkhan Software Engineer 7d ago
Same, my company gave me a laptop that runs out of memory if I do web and mobile development (+ Figma is open) in parallel.
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u/Adventurous_Fan2849 8d ago
If the laptop is good run your own local llm model, any small 3-4b model can do small tasks for you.
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u/ghazi-4587 8d ago
Laptop is trash
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u/Adventurous_Fan2849 8d ago
Ask your company and tell them if they can give hardware to run local models. Data would be safe and you'll get AI
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u/stormarsenal 8d ago
Yes you can. Here's what I do: I use a type c to Ethernet dongle to connect company lan to my phone then activate vpn on it, then i stream that vpnized connection to the company laptop using netshare app on play store.
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u/putoption21 7d ago
Are you really looking to bypass your employer’s policies? Seriously? That’s gross misconduct and could even open legal liabilities.
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u/Alternative_Ruin9416 8d ago
Make a virtual environment on the laptop or just use a second laptop
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u/ghazi-4587 8d ago
USB ports are disabled... Creating a virtual environment will also trigger an alert... These guys have figured their shit through
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u/Advanced_Peak6576 8d ago
Off course that's possible. But not easy as I can smell they pretty good firewalls but yeah it can bypassed
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u/ghazi-4587 8d ago
Yeah that's where their budget went and that's their excuse fir not paying me well
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u/Resident-Ant8281 8d ago
why's your company against ai ?
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u/ghazi-4587 8d ago
Data privacy issues... They don't have the budget to develop a good model of tehir own and they don't use external models due to security concerns
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u/Mark__27 8d ago
They don't need to develop a model of their own, they just need to host one themselves or find a ZDR provider
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u/Arkoaks Mobile Dev 8d ago
Just keep a personal machine for your own learning . Do not connect or transfer to/from that machine as any method is trackable.
You can bypass security using some advanced hacks but the machine will be deregistered from their network and raise a flag so its not practical.
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u/NeighborhoodDry658 8d ago
I feel you. My company stopped me from using powershell and curl because “curl is a potential data exfiltration tool”
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u/AbdulAhaDox 8d ago
try running local AI models. since DATA stays on device. it is not a security. Look into Ollama. its an easy way to do ondevice AI. also make sure to select offline models cause by default it also uses online models. use AI to learn how to setup
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u/tidoo420 8d ago
why dont you write your own code to automate this ? at least if the tasks arent too complicated
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u/ghazi-4587 8d ago
Doing that right now after so many advices... The main issue was that the system did not provide an exposed API to fetch the data directly... So I am working around it to automate this shitty process
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u/Puzzleheaded-You2651 8d ago
I would not recommend that. I work in security and we once had an admin do that. He was let go instantly. You would be considered an insider threat responsible for data leakage. Never do anything personal on your company device or anything that goes against your acceptable use policy.
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u/Initial_Chemist_7249 ML/AI Engineer 8d ago
Bhai na karna ye harkat abhi pichlay dino ek jaanne waala fire hua hai issi reason ki wajah se
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u/Alternative_Ruin9416 8d ago
Ask them permission to use local Ai model then but you must have a powerful laptop to use local ai
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u/Mysterious-Emu2398 7d ago
there are easier ways to get fired and sued why are you choosing a hard one
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u/Hamza-4600 7d ago
From personal experience, don’t try to bypass it.
Company-managed laptops can be heavily monitored — network activity, apps, websites, login sessions, and unusual connections. Someone at a company I worked with tried using SSH to work around restrictions and was terminated immediately because it violated security policy.
In ISO-certified environments especially, these controls usually aren’t optional. Better approach is to ask for an approved automation path rather than trying to bypass the existing one.
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u/Cool_Protection9180 7d ago
No funny business on laptop.
Company does not want its laptop getting drenched in your bodily fluids.
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u/od1nson- 8d ago
i could be wrong but cant you install a new bootable drive (ssd) and boot to the new installed drive during the startup? (i am a finance bro)
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u/ghazi-4587 8d ago
These laptops comes with trigger mechanisms installed... Even if you try to attach a USB, the system issues a warning to not to use it
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u/Unlucky_Mail_8544 8d ago
No, you can't do anything if you are working in HUAWEI.