Thread regarding U.S. Bank layoffs

A warning to Mac users: bossware was remotely installed on my machine yesterday.

Yesterday, my computer started lagging and freezing. I use a high performance MacBook Pro, so this was odd. I tried to restart, but I was stopped by a pop-up that said "NexThink" software was being installed and restarting would cause data loss and performance issues. The popup disappeared in less than a second and my computer restarted.

Sure enough, when I checked my task manager logs, a handful of processes from "NexThink" were running, which I'd never seen on my machine before.

I was also one of the Mac users whose in-office time wasn't accounted for in the first quarter. So, while I'm hoping this is a fix to that issue, it seems like it's mostly just employee monitoring software.


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Not sure about other departments, but at least in mine, Nexthink has been installed for at least 3+ years now. Even before Sapience.

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What can NexThink do? How do we know if it's on our device?

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Post ID: @b7+1kqfrw7f4

This isn't new, they've been using Sapience for a while now. Only a matter of time before we are all subjected to surveillance software.

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