iMessage on Work Computer

[janitorC7]

How many people have their iMessages from their iCloud Accounts hooked up to their work computers? A large number of my co-workers do it but, I’ve also been a little iffy about following suit (despite how very convenient it would be).

Obviously, I know that IT at my 1500 person Enterprise Software company COULD be VPNing and watching my screen at any time (but assuming they are not), how much iMessage information is archived on the machine? What about the files with the actual message.. are they encrypted in anyway? Is there a plaintext copy on my computer. Is there anyway my company could recover those files from my machine?

Nothing illegal or anything that I’m worried could get me fired.. but it’s not like I don’t occasionally complain to my SO about my coworkers, exchange intimate text messages, or speak immaturely with friends. It would just be embarrassing.

What are people’s experience? What is the actual exposure of linking iMessage? Or other services for messaging for that matter to my work machine?

 

[JWreck]

What are you on about? Go read about iMessage encryption.

“VPNing” is not the right term for what you’re describing. If your concern is that they’re remotely viewing your screen, you may have other concerns greater than iMessage.

As a general rule of thumb, don’t send intimate messages on a work device, regardless if the message service encrypted or not.

 

[janitorC7]

Apologies - VNC was what I was going for there. And no, I’ve never been concerned about my employer viewing my screen.

What I’m interested in here is what peoples opinions are about best practices and if the community here does it. There is not a lot of great data that I have found around how iMessages are stored once they are already on your machine. Would things like discovery control and archive applications be archiving them for use in future legal disputes somebody may have with my company. This is a common legal requirement of many enterprise contracts.