Work Wi-Fi concerns while surfing UG at your job
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Regarding the thread topic, regardless of the agreed upon fact that it carries a risk, I'm convinced that a large portion of browsing and posts originate from work.
I'd be curious to know if anybody, member or lurker, has gotten terminated due to browsing UG. I'm not suggesting that it won't happen in the future, but I'm curious if it already has happened.
Corporate structure is also a big variable here. Many situations are vastly different from large corporate structures.
I'd be curious to know if anybody, member or lurker, has gotten terminated due to browsing UG. I'm not suggesting that it won't happen in the future, but I'm curious if it already has happened.
Corporate structure is also a big variable here. Many situations are vastly different from large corporate structures.
There is a big difference between what I do outside of my employment on my own time using my own resources (or those of Dunkin Donuts Wifi) and that of doing my thing using the resources of my employer who has made it clear that I have no right to any privacy whatsoever. My ( and just about any other employer I would assume) has the right to monitor all my communications using company resources (phone, computer, email, internet, etc).
And in my case (although not all others on this site) has the right to know who I see, talk to, communicate with, etc, anyone who is outside the country and all my activities when I am outside the country.
And in my case (although not all others on this site) has the right to know who I see, talk to, communicate with, etc, anyone who is outside the country and all my activities when I am outside the country.
NO! It's the same concept as Chrome's incognito browsing. When you open a new incognito tab, you'll see this, "... you aren’t invisible. Going incognito doesn’t hide your browsing from your employer, your internet service provider, or the websites you visit." All of the URLs accessed by the router can be logged onto a company server and reported to the boss. And I wouldn't put it past some employers to use keyloggers as well. When you close the private browsing (or incognito) window, you'll delete the browser history and cookies from the local computer only. If you read most company's computer use policies, they'll make it clear that there should be no expectation of privacy. Using the company's desktop to browse what's new on Utopia Guide, even with private browsing, is probably not the way to go if you want to keep your job.
Consumer Reports recently posted an article on protecting your privacy where they recommend doing web searches through a browser that doesn't track your history. They pointed out that even when you use stealth mode in Google, they themselves still track you. It just doesn't show up in your history.
Anyway, CR recommended DuckDuckGo. So far I've only used it to go to this site. Has anyone had any experience with it that they would like to share.
Anyway, CR recommended DuckDuckGo. So far I've only used it to go to this site. Has anyone had any experience with it that they would like to share.
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I used to do this for a living. If you are on our network we know exactly who/where you are and exactly what are you looking. Network sniffers let us see each packet, source destination and data, in real time. Triggers can be created to watch for specific addresses or text in the data. Don't do it. Especially if a work phone or computer.
