Your classes didn't thought you how printer drivers work?

Self-aware printers require drivers?

Yea, you will not find it in Tiger Direct or NewEgg.

What are we voting on, again?

Can you name some vaporwares according to your feeling and emotions?

Why do you think they're vaporware!

When you exit a job, it is sometimes reviewed by your HR to avoid various legal matters. They have the right to go over your files.

Your employer made you print out your own files and hand them over to HR? Now you're just not making ANY sense.

You gotta log in first, buddy ;)

Yeah, exactly. I'm on Android, and within the last year our standard connection to our work Exchange server required me to accept some basic management settings (remote wiping included) just to be able to pull my mail down, no extra software needed.

Some maintain copies of your files printed or they maintain the name of print jobs forever.

Who's using printers? Are your classes requiring you to turn in printed paper or something?

There are plenty of USB policy apps that enterprises buy.

Actually, mostly vaporware, given how USB works independent of all high level software.

*Networked* printers? Like, that use paper? For what, exactly?

Troll printer salesman.

I've seen that same "never accept counter offers" reasoning before, and to some degree I agree with it, but that's assuming that the benefits of a job are entirely monetarily-based, which isn't a great way to look at employment. What if the employer giving you a counter offer is a smaller shop with less resources, but has a great work environment, your coworkers and boss are awesome, and the work you're doing is fun and interesting?

can block that device from connecting.

In that case:

what you describe is functionally no different than simply backing up company documents from your work PC to an external drive, and then leaving with that information. Or, even lower tech, just taking physical documents with you when you leave.

I don't know what your work does, but this is definitely starting to become common at many places. While I certainly don't want to relinquish admin control over my personal phone, I also like the the ability to remotely connect to work resources without needing to carry around two phones.

Well, we're referring to different things. ganjadude and I were talking about effectively "taking" company data, and how useful mobile management tools are at preventing that, so I was using "backlash" to refer to *companies* having issues with employees that leave.

To your point - users may not have any legal or official room to complain, but that rarely stops people from actually complaining.

To do BYOD you either need to specify EXACTLY what people can or can't use

A lot of the mobile remote software allows for this sort of control.

There are regulations about how different classifications of data can be moved around and stored.

Employers that follow those regulations/classifications probably won't require (or even allow) BYOD, so I would agree with vux984 that they aren't really different from other methods of taking company data off-site.

Typically the remote management software will work with any connection, so if your wifi hits the internet (mild pedantry - airplane mode disables wifi too, but obviously you could just disable mobile data), and is consequently able to call 'home' to your employer, it'll still be able to perform a remote wipe.

That said, what you describe is functionally no different than simply backing up company documents from your work PC to an external drive, and then leaving with that information. Or, even lower tech, just taking physical documents with you when you leave.

All of the mentioned restrictions only work if the phone is locked.

The mobile management software that's out there (and used by some companies that allow BYOD) works just fine on unlocked/rooted phones.