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Laptop Hardening advice for Windows? (lemmy.today)

submitted 5 days ago by Ksk3829@lemmy.today to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Keep a super long story short, getting a Laptop from my University as the course starts in September, and the benefit I have applied for which covers my university course in the UK includes a Laptop.

They pay for the majority of the price.

Intel i5 10th generation or AMD Ryzen 5 4000 8 GB 512 SSD graphics Onboard

Onboard graphics Operating system Windows 10 64 Bit 10 64 Bit 2.8 kg

These are the minimum specs it will come with.

As a privacy consciousness individual, and since I will require the Laptop formy course at university, andpotentially a job, one day perhaps, I would like to make the laptop as privacy friendly and hardened as possible.

I want to basically make it a safe device. I need it to be not monitoring me, or watching me.

Potentinally there will be some sort of system or software that can monitor my activities through my.university orbenefitss people.

As it is for studying and for working, I think best to keep the same operating system (OS) Also I have only ever used windows in my life. Never Linux other than a virtual system on my host windows 11 pro edition PC.

My PC has an amd ryzen 55 000 CPU.

Thanks.

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[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 21 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You have two options. Either put Linux on it and run Windows in a virtual machine, or buy a second laptop that you only use for work. Because if your university requires monitoring spyware, then you don't need to be working and doing your studies on the same device.

You do personal stuff on a personal machine. You do work stuff on a work machine. And you do educational stuff on an educational machine. If you don't want to buy three physical machines, then VMs are your next best bet.

[–] oppy1984@lemdro.id 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Yep, separate machines is the way.

My employer provides all of us with laptops for remote work, and management with cell phones. Some of these people (managers included) use the laptop as their sole computer for everything, and most of management takes advantage of the fact that if you port your phone number to the company phone you can switch between profiles and have the company pay the phone bill.

I look at these people and just marvel at their stupidity. My work laptop is on a segregated network and shut down when not in use. And if it goes like it looks like it's going, when I get a manager cell phone, I'll be keeping my personal phone separate. Keep'em separate always.