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[Byte Stryke]

Actually you will find that in most employee handbooks and employment agreements they will have clauses stating that regardless of what you THINK they are watching or what is allowed, Everything can be and usually is monitored.
this is simply to protect the company from vulnerabilities in browser applications, as well as potential for civil or criminal vulnerabilities for internet communications.

Seriously, we caught a guy IN IRAQ surfing child porn site...
you can wrap it, proxy it, encrypt it... but in order for it to get where it has to go... There have to be headers that the routers read.
and then you have Server Logs, firewall logs, IA Devices that copy your traffic and send it to an ARC site.... almost forgot all about that.


I Suggest you dont do anything on a company/Public/Government computer that you dobnt want your Boss/District attny/JAG to see.
Best practice policy.


Luckydog, if your Boss OKs it, rock on.
CYOA

[Irving]

Not sure where you are obtaining your information,

From previous incidents in the news. Good luck trying to convince anyone that because you logged into your bank account on a company computer that they have the right to your account info.

[Hoosier]

you can wrap it, proxy it, encrypt it... but in order for it to get where it has to go... There have to be headers that the routers read.

VPN will only show (unencrypted) headers to the VPN server, the payload (including packets that could go on to the wider internet) is encrypted. Same with a secure shell tunnel. If you can't trust the network you're on (Starbucks, hotels, airports) and you have a server somewhere on a network you do trust, you can setup a VPN/ssh between them.

H.

[Byte Stryke]

VPN will only show (unencrypted) headers to the VPN server, the payload (including packets that could go on to the wider internet) is encrypted. Same with a secure shell tunnel. If you can't trust the network you're on (Starbucks, hotels, airports) and you have a server somewhere on a network you do trust, you can setup a VPN/ssh between them.

H.

agreed.
there's more to it than this... federal warrants for proxy server/VPN session logs and such..
there is ALWAYS a trail

but yes, your information is accurate


Stuart.
They dont have the right to utilize the passwords you provided to their equipment to access your bank account, this is correct. However the argument is made that you have provided the information to the company computer freely and with knowledge that the system is being monitored.
Typically what I have seen is hours and hours of logs, compiling the logs into chronological order by terminal, shipping that to legal/JAG and it either results in civil action and termination or UCMJ Actions.

It's best just not to risk the silly stuff on someone elses computer

[gnihcraes]

our internet logs get turned over to 7news once a year - open records act. I only go where I should as needed for work. My time is your money...

they are tracking, they are watching and they are keeping it in your file for a rainy day and they need something against you. (someone else said this too above^^..)