Microsoft releases security tools for threat intelligence and redteaming – Computer – News

no idea who gave a device such a name, probably something default from Apple, but that does not make it personal.

First of all, it is personal data. It’s 1 person’s phone. When you see that phone, you’re pretty sure it’s that person. It doesn’t matter that you don’t know what Henk’s last name is, it doesn’t even have to be his real name.
The device belongs to 1 person and has its own name. You can recognize the person on the phone. Then it is personal data.

If someone violates the GDPR, it is Apple by using that data in a hostname that is freely available for any other network device.

Maybe, but that doesn’t absolve other companies from their own duties. If a company collects personal data, they must comply with the GDPR.

If someone yells “hey henk come ff”, someone standing next to him would suddenly also be violating the GDPR, because he can be identified by proxy.

In any case, we agree that the name ‘henk’ is personal data. If someone responds to it, that name clearly points to a person.

The GPDR does not apply in this case because the GDPR is only about computers and not about human eyes and ears. But if that person is holding a (business) telephone, that is strictly speaking an offense (although there is probably an exception).

By the way, you can just update your IT policy

This can be done beforehand. That won’t work if someone else turns it on for you.

and if people don’t want this behavior in their home network, then they shouldn’t hang or segment their work device in the home network,…

Beware of victim blaming. While I agree that people need to better secure their systems, realistically you can’t expect consumers to be able to do that themselves. A small part of me thinks that those people should throw away their computers and phones and live in the woods until they know enough about IT to keep up with it, but of course it doesn’t work that way.

If I don’t want someone stealing my phone then I shouldn’t leave it in front of the open window, that’s stupid. But it is and remains the fault of the thief who put his arm through the window and took my phone.