Post during work?

easyeason3

If you log in or post during work hours, on a work computer, can the IT department find out your username?
And therefore find out what you post?

Irish_polizei

Yep and you'll get the sack once they find out you posted in the erectile dysfunction thread

Random

in theory your i.t. dept can see everything you do online.

chin_grin

Not if yer wearin' yer trusty tin foil hat!

RoadKillTs

Bit late to be asking that now over 2000 posts in

Princess Peach

Well I'm not even allowed to be on the internet in work.

Sometimes I'm a little bit naughty.

Alanstrainor

Random wrote: »

in theory your i.t. dept can see everything you do online.

Yup. But in reality most IT depts just aren't arsed.

FreudianSlippers

Sometimes I post from my phone in Court.

Obviously not when I'm working lol.. but there is a lot of waiting around

easyeason3

Well it's an outside company that can log in.
Does that make a difference?

MGMTea

yes, and they have your browsing history, so they can report your shenanigans to teh internet po-lice

Alanstrainor

easyeason3 wrote: »

Well it's an outside company that can log in.
Does that make a difference?

If your worried take it that they can see everything you are doing online. However my post still stands.

Alanstrainor wrote: »

Yup. But in reality most IT depts just aren't arsed.

policarp

easyeason3 wrote: »

If you log in or post during work hours, on a work computer, can the IT department find out your username?
And therefore find out what you post?

They find out what you post and where you walk your dog.
Then they follow you and beep their horns at you...

up for anything

Irish_polizei wrote: »

Yep and you'll get the sack once they find out you posted in the erectile dysfunction thread

No, she'll get the sack when they find her taking a sickie day thread.

easyeason3

Alanstrainor wrote: »

If your worried take it that they can see everything you are doing online. However my post still stands.

Ok, so if I use the broadband & log in on my phone does that still count?

Princess Peach

Guarantee you the IT department spends more time on Boards than you anyway

chin_grin

Alanstrainor wrote: »

If your worried take it that they can see everything you are doing online. However my post still stands.

Jayz you techies can do everythin' nowadays canchyeh?

Don Juan DeMagoo

easyeason3 wrote: »

If you log in or post during work hours, on a work computer, can the IT department find out your username?
And therefore find out what you post?

I once worked with a guy in a multinational company, he had to ring IT in America for some assistance. When he gave them all the info about his computer, they proceeded to remotely access his computer.

Let me just say the result was absolute priceless on an epic scale. Phone line was pulled from the phone, followed by the frantic clicking of the delete button...... meanwhile the IT guy still had remote access and he rang the lads boss to tell him that he was waiting for a ring back. Poor lad was paranoid for ages after that fearing big brother was watching:p

easyeason3

So when I log out of boards & it says 'cookies cleared', boards are really lying to me aren't they?

And is there some kind of software I should look for that's installed on my computer to track my online footprints?

Alanstrainor

chin_grin wrote: »

Jayz you techies can do everythin' nowadays canchyeh?

I'll make it do a little jump for ya in a minute...just need to refuckulate the thingermaggiger,

I assume everything I post in work is visible to our IT dept, safer that way

starbelgrade

easyeason3 wrote: »

So when I log out of boards & it says 'cookies cleared', boards are really lying to me aren't they?

And is there some kind of software I should look for that's installed on my computer to track my online footprints?

Once you clear your browsing history, you're safe.

(HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!)

easyeason3

starbelgrade wrote: »

Once you clear your browsing history, you're safe.

(HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!)

Taking the piss?
And if not, how?

Kimono-Girl

starbelgrade wrote: »

Once you clear your browsing history, you're safe.

(HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!)

are you though??? :P


are you really???? :pac:

starbelgrade

easyeason3 wrote: »

Taking the piss?
And if not, how?

Anyone can back track your history from multiple places, from your ISP DNS Server, from the websites itself and moreover if they have a clamp on your IP they can even know what your are watching in real time.

Your IT dept can easily read your emails, log your web visits, and watch your file downloads. And since many computer hacks now involve tunneling through http it makes a great deal of sense for sys admins to closely watch network http traffic.

In other words, they know exactly what you're doing. Or can do at least.

What you might want to do is find out if your company has an acceptable use policy. Employers can monitor to their heart's content, but they have to inform you that they are doing so.

easyeason3

starbelgrade wrote: »

Anyone can back track your history from multiple places, from your ISP DNS Server, from the websites itself and moreover if they have a clamp on your IP they can even know what your are watching in real time.

Your IT dept can easily read your emails, log your web visits, and watch your file downloads. And since many computer hacks now involve tunneling through http it makes a great deal of sense for sys admins to closely watch network http traffic.

In other words, they know exactly what you're doing. Or can do at least.

What you might want to do is find out if your company has an acceptable use policy. Employers can monitor to their heart's content, but they have to inform you that they are doing so.

Ok, thanks.

starbelgrade

easyeason3 wrote: »

Ok, thanks.

No worries. It wasn't hard to Google, then copy & paste.

thebman

In theory they can, in practice they don't give a crap and generally only do if someone requests the information or they are nosy b*tards or its the type of organisation most people don't want to work in :P

KeithM89_old

A few things iv learned from work placement in IT:
-They can see everything - your email, your facebook status updates, your passwords etc...
-They dont care unless you piss them off - then they go through EVERYTHING you look at
-Management spend just as much time looking at crap than anyone else in the building.
-The blond girl at reception gets botox..

EDIT - ignore that last one

AAAAAAAHHH

What I've learned working in IT: People will let me remote onto their machines with bank details, private conversations, pretty much anything on the screen for me to read if I wanted to. If I tell them something will take an hour to fix though, all of a sudden they don't trust me.

krudler

KeithM89 wrote: »

A few things iv learned from work placement in IT:
-They can see everything - your email, your facebook status updates, your passwords etc...
-They dont care unless you piss them off - then they go through EVERYTHING you look at
-Management spend just as much time looking at crap than anyone else in the building.
-The blond girl at reception gets botox..

EDIT - ignore that last one

This, I was sat next to one of my supervisors once and she spent the entire day looking at wedding dresses, but when people were asking her for help she was telling them she was too busy to take a call :rolleyes: