https://www.macrumors.com/2024/10/09/do-not-use-iphone-mirroring-corporate-mac/
Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Use iPhone Mirroring on a Corporate Mac
Wednesday October 9, 2024 4:31 am PDT by Tim Hardwick
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Apple’s new iPhone Mirroring feature in macOS Sequoia might seem like a convenient way to access your phone from your work computer, but security firm Sevco has uncovered a significant privacy risk that should make employees think twice before enabling this feature on company-owned Macs, at least for now.
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When executed in a Terminal window that has been granted full disk access without setting up iPhone Mirroring, the command returns a normal list of macOS applications. But when executed in that same Terminal window after setting up iPhone Mirroring, it also returns personal iOS applications and metadata.
For employees, this means that apps they use privately could become visible to their employer’s IT department without their knowledge or consent. This could potentially reveal sensitive personal information, such as dating apps, health-related apps, or VPNs used in countries with restricted internet access.
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Your employer, their network, and their tools should NEVER be used for your private purposes.
The easiest way to ensure that separation is to maintain a strict “air gap” (i.e., strictly never connecting anything by wire, bluetooth, or network wifi to something “corporate”).
If for no other reason than when your employer gets hit with a virus, ransomware, or some corporate security “tool”, then it would get your hardware in its grasp.
Argh!
Don’t forget that the employer can claim your hardware is suspect of having their data on it!
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