The reason I am asking is because the administration told us in a faculty meeting this a.m. that they may be monitoring our sites visited, and I have said some things here putting down the HAIC. I know that you can't read the forums without logging in, but can they see my password protected pages? Same thing with my personal email and bank account? I know my bank account is on a secure server, but not my yahoo mail. Thanks. FT
Yes, I can see it. You will be getting a pretty pink piece of paper this afternoon, so please clean out your desk ASAP, but leave the Juicy Fruit. Thanks. Sincerely, Falcons Talons' IT Dept. Guy
they know every IP address you visit. you can't hide that. They will have a log of the fact you visiting bbs.clutchcity.net. as for reading what you write, that is a different issue. They probably won't bother with that. But theoretically, they can grab any page (yahoo mail is a page), you view and save it, except for those from a site with https rather than http at the beginning of the URL. Well, they can "read" https too, but it is encrypted. As for mail, ftp, and other services, again, you are only protected if you use encrypted versions of those services.
Damn Falcon, what company do you work for? They should be focusing on making money and keeping their company successful instead of monitoring what their employees are doing.
He is employed by a school district. and it is just a fact of life that most companies do log and monitor what their employees are reading. It helps keep the IT guys busy.
Not my company, I treat employees like adults. As long as they are getting their stuff done they can surf any site they want. DD
Actually most companies don't "monitor" what every person is doing. That would take a lot of time and employees. I'm a network admin and in my experiences, people are only monitored if there is a good reason to monitor them.
I will note this though -- that is probably just a scare tactic. Network admins have much better things to do than read logs of websites visited . . . Then again, those of us who ARE the network admins don't have to worry at all
This is what I believe. I mean it makes perfect sense that it is going to cost a company lots of money to monitor every person's activities. We will receive messages every 6 months or so to remind us the policies on the Internet. Yet, I would say about 80% of the people I work with are on the Net at some point during the day (it is just that some are on longer than others ). I wouldn't get wrapped up in that **** (worrying about if you get busted). You would think that as long as you are not visiting any p*rn sites, that they would warn you if they caught you; however, every company is different.
I will admit to only knowing what I hear...I dont have the priviledge of being a working network admin right now. Tho I'm available to be a PFY to someone else's BOFH.
Hey now I have heard that every pic you look at on the web is saved on to your computer some where. Now I have been on this board at work a million and one times and I have popped into some threads that might be considered obscene for a work environment, namely those damn Vida Guerra threads. Where are those pics stored in memory?
My school always tells us to make sure where we go, though most of the sites, including the site at one time, was blocked. They said our network guy person could see what we are doing at any time. At the beginning, I just thought it was a scare tactic and clearing the history would be good, though I didn't or couldn't go anywhere the school wouldn't like, such as the Bill Nye the science guy's website. However, this year I'm taking CISCO, a networking course, and we get to work with our network guy. Seeing what I have so far, I have no doubt that he could, he actually wanted, see what we did. Now I can see what they do too...JK.
I know a guy that got fired at Dell for the sites he was going to. I think some extreme right wing stuff. However, they only went after him because he was a suck arse employee and were looking for reason to fire him. Words of advice for you youngsters that have never worked in corporate America. "If someone is aiming for you, don't give them the bullets."
There is probably a software that does the monitoring, notes the abusers, and then writes up a report for the system administrator. Probably no work involved. And if there isn't a software, cha ching.
I have no idea what the acronym stands for, but he is the BOFH's partner in crime. Basically, the Assistant BOFH. I figure with the amount of experience I have, thats the best i could hope for right now.
