Can my company see keystrokes of home computer when I use their laptop with Universal Control?

There is no way to know for certain. If your employer is keylogging your work computer, who knows what else they may be tracking on it or through it, and over time how much more intrusive their tracking may become.

FWIW, I would never associate or connect my home computer in any way with my employer's systems, network or internet services. You should keep them completely segregated from each other.

Also, FWIW, I would never work for an employer who was known to keylog employee computers.

flabbygum wrote:

Just was hoping someone from Apple would chime in and say "Nope. We definately thought of that during the design phase and there is zero chance, virtually impossible you could see the keystrokes of a computer connected with Universal Control". Maybe that's a pipe dream.

Apple is not here on these forums. It is only just regular users such as yourself. The closest you get are the forum moderators or Community Specialists, but they generally only respond with mostly generic responses & links to public Apple documents if a thread gets zero replies after a few days.

Always assume any company managed device will be able to see everything you do with that device. While some companies may have a mostly hands off policy of not actively spying on their users even if the computer is being managed and locked down, but if an employee dispute or legal action arises, then they can most definitely review any & all logs & activities on your device. Plus if you used your personal device for business in any way, then that personal device may also be accessed through a court order. Of course rules & laws vary by region. And each company has their own rules & policies (sometimes may not always be following the local laws or accepted practices).

Make sure your employer only allows access via VPN to their computers. Otherwise it isn't practicing safe computing for remote computing. Any machine on VPN is subject to the auspices of the employer's whims.

JAMF and Intune both offer many remote management features for updating software on employer terms known as mobile device management and they work with Macs.

FYI:

Universal Control - Can the Host Computer see the text you type?

Short answer: it depends; assume they do.

I would place some opaque tape over the camera on that company owned MacBook Pro too… as likely no one is monitoring the system admins that have access to the Mac. Consider sliding the input sound level all the way to left on your built-in microphone sound preferences so that cannot be monitored either.