My boss proposed me to code from home on the their machines via internet, in two

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My boss proposed me to code from home on the their machines via internet, in two possible ways:

1. I would connect to their computer and work on their machine, as if I was in front of the computer(from what he said the method used in this case would not be a VNC but something different)
2. Via SVN

My concern is all about the privacy for the first way. It is easier, I'm not a security expert and I would be not so happy if he could sniff network coming out of my router. In this case he could see the traffic of all my family, and this is very annoying.

Could someone give me some tips to understand if this way of working could be dangerous for my privacy or not? What should I pay attention to?

Explanation / Answer

Fairly Safe for most purposes.

For a remote desktop tool like VNC, Citrix or Remote Desktop

These tools are more or less constrained to the graphical window on your box, they might be able to access your copy/paste buffer.

For a VPN Tool

These have the ability to, but probably wouldn't route your local PC traffic to the employers system before sending it to the internet. Their configuration may disable all other network routes. It would be a problem only while it was 'connected'. The tool wouldn't forward the rest of your family network unless you are using the PC as the network router.

BUT

This assumes that the company/boss doesn't ask you to download monitoring/spyware/software management programs onto your computer as part of the remote access deal.

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