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Comment by palmotea

5 hours ago

> Microsoft confirmed that starting March 2026 (delayed from January), managers will be able to see your real-time location. And no, disconnecting from the office Wi-Fi won't save you.

Is there anything more than the Wifi SSID stuff below?

> If you connect to a Wi-Fi network that isn't your company's, Teams will simply display the name of that network. So if you decide to take a "working lunch" and connect to "Starbucks_Guest_WiFi", your boss sees it instantly. You can’t hide behind a generic "Remote" status anymore.

So how exactly does this work? It'd be pretty trivial setup my access point to provide a work SSID? How much access does Teams really have to get info to discern your location?

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iso1631  5 hours ago

SSID, signal strength, BSSID, private IP, public IP, ipv6, all trivially available to a binary running on a machine.

It sounds far less than the diagnostics data I get from a small go binary.

If corporate policy is you can't connect to starbucks wifi, then enforce that at the MDM mangement layer - I assume things like SCCM can do it.

  • palmotea  5 hours ago

    > SSID, signal strength, BSSID, private IP, public IP, ipv6, all trivially available to a binary running on a machine.

    So it sounds like if you want to circumvent this: get a travel router that spoofs a work access point, and make sure any kind of identification requests that would reveal a public IP are either blocked or are going through your work VPN.