squatch66 Posted August 24, 2009 Share Posted August 24, 2009 i have been bringing my laptop in to work with me and plugging in through their network to gain access to the internet. can they track my online activity even though i am on my computer? and no before you guys say it i am not looking at porn :hysterical: i mainly use the internet for es, fantasy football, and pandora. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.Guy. Posted August 24, 2009 Share Posted August 24, 2009 I am almost 100% sure they can track it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toe Jam Posted August 24, 2009 Share Posted August 24, 2009 I'm pretty sure they can track it. They tracked mine at HSN. Got a warning about visiting ES, actually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squatch66 Posted August 24, 2009 Author Share Posted August 24, 2009 lol tj thats funny. i am mainly doing it because there is a guy that came through and checked all the history on the cpu and freaked out because people were going to facebook and youtube. i just figured that i would plug my computer in and surf from that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PokerPacker Posted August 24, 2009 Share Posted August 24, 2009 I would guess its probably trackable. the only safe way, really is to get a mobile broadband connection or something of the sort. My brother's got an unlimited data plan on his phone, and he can hook his phone up to his computer to act as a modem, so he can get wireless broadband wherever he gets service. Do something like that and you won't be going through your employer to get to the internet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opiate-Zeo Posted August 24, 2009 Share Posted August 24, 2009 lol tj thats funny. i am mainly doing it because there is a guy that came through and checked all the history on the cpu and freaked out because people were going to facebook and youtube. i just figured that i would plug my computer in and surf from that. All the data is track-able, however, if this is the case then you are probably safe. Also consider that they may think it's a security breach to connect a non-work computer to the network. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMS Posted August 24, 2009 Share Posted August 24, 2009 i have been bringing my laptop in to work with me and plugging in through their network to gain access to the internet. can they track my online activity even though i am on my computer?and no before you guys say it i am not looking at porn :hysterical: i mainly use the internet for es, fantasy football, and pandora. They can definitely track your computer usage if you are using their network, if they have the software to do so. Most fire walls for instance will log the incoming and outgoing urls. Some traking solutions are even more advanced and will group types of internet sites by url and raise configurable alarms if visit specific types of sites.... Solution? use an anonymous proxy. Google "anonymous proxy" there are a number of free ones available. Then all your internet traffic they can see will go to a single generic IP address and they won't know what the heck you're doing. The way it works is all your outbound connections pass through a generic proxy so the fire wall / usage monitoring software registars that ip address; and then you go where you want to go from there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrFan Posted August 24, 2009 Share Posted August 24, 2009 Big Brother is watching you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corcaigh Posted August 24, 2009 Share Posted August 24, 2009 Yes - in using their Internet connection you send requests through one of their servers. The server has to know which machine to pass the requested web pages to. Even without installing monitoring software the server log will have all that information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sticksboi05 Posted August 24, 2009 Share Posted August 24, 2009 Yes, they can track it, if it really matters, there are ways to work around it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motorhead Posted August 24, 2009 Share Posted August 24, 2009 Yes, they can track it, if it really matters, there are ways to work around it. Sure they can.Will they care?Most likely not. If you stay off porn sites etc. They can, if they want to see every key stroke you make,every mouse click. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slackermike Posted August 24, 2009 Share Posted August 24, 2009 Yes, they can track where you go. And I agree, some companies view bringing in a home computer and hooking it up to the LAN a security risk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMS Posted August 24, 2009 Share Posted August 24, 2009 There is a perfect solution to folks snooping like this... I say again... "anonymous proxy"!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattsb84 Posted August 24, 2009 Share Posted August 24, 2009 It's not really snooping if he's using their network. They have every right to know what someones doing on their network. They pay for the bandwidth after all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoleSkin21 Posted August 24, 2009 Share Posted August 24, 2009 i have been bringing my laptop in to work with me and plugging in through their network to gain access to the internet. can they track my online activity even though i am on my computer?and no before you guys say it i am not looking at porn :hysterical: i mainly use the internet for es, fantasy football, and pandora. hidemyass.com......use that as your proxy/web filter avoidance. Not sure they can really see what you are looking at if you are not a member of the domain. If you are not logging in with your windows/novell username then it can't track you by username. It will probably just show your service tag, pc name etc. So it might show squatchlaptop going here and there...But.....it just depends on what software they have for web filtering. Tell me what web filter they use at work, and I can tell you what they can see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnFoRcEr_uPu Posted August 24, 2009 Share Posted August 24, 2009 As many have said, yes, they can track it. However, many have said you can use a proxy to get around that. I know that personally here in the I.T. dept. I work in, proxy IP's are blocked as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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