Re: Privacy of internet usage in an office
- From: jeffj@xxxxxxxxx (Jeff Jonas)
- Date: 11 Apr 2008 21:21:23 -0400
Suppose you use the Internet at your work desk. Is it possible
for your boss and/or the system administrator to see what pages
you visited, WITHOUT physically looking at your computer?
Trivially, by using things such as TCPDUMP(8)
tcpdump - dump traffic on a network
or asserting control on the dataswitch to watch the headers,
or watching traffic on the external link,
or using a proxy server, ...
In other words, is clearing the private data
and the cache maybe not good enough?
It's too late: the moment you REQUESTED the web page,
the request can be seen, logged, etc.
My approach to using the internet at work is that somebody in IT downstairs is
looking at whatever I pull up. I have no expectation of privacy as they're the
ones providing access, the computer and its software. As a result, I only look
at work related stuff when I'm at work. I never check my personal email as I
assume they'd then be able to see that as well, and I consider that none of
their business.
From a work ethic point-of-view, that's really safest.Technically speaking, there are ways to create a secure conduit
for privacy and security, but if that's considered circumventing
mandated auditing for Sarbanes-Oxley, then it's a workplace no-no.
.
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