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Using the work internet....
    #19366305 - 01/03/14 11:11 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Started realizing I used to browse a lot of illegal things whilst at work....

I work late nights...and am allowed to be online as long as I want on my own personal laptop.....but then I start to realize I am under the lobbys sign on......does everything I do get tracked?.......started to realize even though it's not their computer, my history of browsing could be saved on their server?  Am I being too paranoid?


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Re: Using the work internet.... [Re: Anonymous #1]
    #19366311 - 01/03/14 11:13 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Please don't tell me you currently using that same laptop to post right now. :eek:


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Re: Using the work internet.... [Re: Anonymous #2]
    #19366354 - 01/03/14 11:24 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Ugh....so I should be paranoid?


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Re: Using the work internet.... [Re: Anonymous #1]
    #19367912 - 01/04/14 12:20 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

It really depends on the IT people at your work.    A lot of work places just hook up everyone to the internet and don't care what people do.  But a lot of places do look into what people are doing.  They easily can.

It would be best to use a VPN at your work.  There are a lot of VPN services, you pay a few bucks a month and you can tunnel all your traffic encrypted through them.

What I do is use a SSH socks proxy. 

ssh -D 3128 shell.account.com

Then set my browser to use localhost:3128 as a SOCKS proxy.  That way all the traffic goes out encrypted.  If you don't have a unix shell account somewhere, it would probably be a real good idea to pay a few bucks for a commercial VPN.

Since you are on company time they do have the legal right to spy on your internet traffic.  It would be best if you don't give them anything interesting to see....


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Re: Using the work internet.... [Re: Alan Rockefeller]
    #19368288 - 01/04/14 01:33 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

The two main ways I've seen internet traffic monitored by employers is locking down your ability to clear browser history, or using web filtering services that log attempts to access blocked websites.

If you can access pornographic or well known illegal sites from work, there is little to no chance you'reusing web filtering services, and sshouldn't worry at all unless you hand your physical machkne to an IT person to repair.


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Re: Using the work internet.... [Re: c1dh3d]
    #19371179 - 01/05/14 02:02 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

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The two main ways I've seen internet traffic monitored by employers is locking down your ability to clear browser history, or using web filtering services that log attempts to access blocked websites.

If you can access pornographic or well known illegal sites from work, there is little to no chance you'reusing web filtering services, and sshouldn't worry at all unless you hand your physical machkne to an IT person to repair.





I don't agree with this at all - it is simple to use a packet sniffer to monitor peoples web use.    There are a lot of commercial and open source software available to monitor web traffic.  It is super easy for them to see everything you do, unless you encrypt it.

It is also legal for them to wiretap you in this way.

Urlsnarf is one free tool that does this effectively, but there are many others.


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Re: Using the work internet.... [Re: Alan Rockefeller]
    #19372878 - 01/05/14 01:07 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

This is very true, but the only time I've ever seen such programs deployed is for diagnostic purposes, I'm not aware of any companies that would not only log but actively monitor all web traffic internally (hence my commet about the 3rd party web services).

I suppose a bank, hospital, or anywhere with extremely sensitive customer data might. It is possible to do, I've just never worked with a company that does this and I have worked with a lot of companies networks. So possible, definitely, but I really don't believe it to be likely at all that internet traffic is being actively monitored unless someone stumbles across it while troubleshooting something.

Edit:

After thinking about it I do know of one instance of an internal IT department busting an employee googling how to make different RC's, but he was being monitored due to a very high usage of bandwidth from downloading torrents all day every day. They didn't ever fire him though as no RC's at the time were illegal, and I'm pretty sure he was using a VPN to mask the torrent traffic.

So if you don't get yourself flagged for something stupid, or they stumble across it trubleshooting something else, it to me seems extremely unlikely. Albeit 100% possible.


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Re: Using the work internet.... [Re: c1dh3d]
    #19440613 - 01/19/14 12:43 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

It depends on the IT staff and security plans they have in place, and what illegal stuff you are doing.

Some office networks might not do much in the way of monitoring your traffic, but than you might have some other networks that monitor everything. I would recommend you don't continue to browse illegal things. However if you want to, I'd use a VPN, SSH tunnel, or use Tor.


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