![]() If you are doing anything with your work computer, it can be tracked - regardless of all those "anonymous" sites (and not just through screen captures as some have mentioned).Īlso, if you choose to hit up one of those sites that is supposed to help hide your internet traffic from your work, it will throw up more red flags than if you would have gone straight to Hustler's website - no shit.įinally, as someone else mentioned, just because it's using HTTPS/SSL, does not mean your employer can't see it. All of those saying use your smart phone are dead on. Having some level of familiarity with this subject, I can assure you, the life hacker article is way off base. Just pray you don't have AT&T otherwise you won't get any reception at your desk in midtown!! ![]() These compliance guys are not joking around. This isn't about wasting time at work, this is about compliance with SEC regulations and potential lawsuits. My phone conversations are recorded.Īnyway, its just easier to use a smartphone. Compliance makes sure to call me about once a month to ask a question about a suspicious looking email. Emails are monitored / read by actual humans, although I assume they don't read ALL of them. I have zero admin privileges and cannot install anything. My "local hard drive" (standard C drive) is actually space on a networked LAN drive - my desk computer is just a shell workstation. Internet Explorer 6 is the only supported browser, and it goes through its own proxy. I download and extract portable Maxthon browser from and use it, no real install and I can choose to not use the proxy. (setting cannot be changed) In addition, admin rights are not granted and have the anti-virus program instantly delete any files named firefox, opera, etc. KPP:My place forces internet explorer to go through a company proxy. Lean more about how employers monitor you online with the video below. ![]() No other way described by our users can universally get around company internet monitoring. The easiest way to get around internet monitoring is to just use your cell phone at work. Those of you in back office IT support may now load the monkey shit cannons and fire at will. If you ever did need to do something online without your employer's knowledge, at least now you'll know how. In fact, there's a good reason for it - unrestricted and/or unmonitored Internet access leads to employee man-years in wasted time and productivity.īut I've always believed that forewarned is forearmed. In fact, your employer has every right to do it if you have stipulated as such in your at-will employment contract. While I find that kind of monitoring creepy, I don't consider it an invasion of privacy in any legal sense. This handy post from Lifehacker shows you how to tell if you're being monitored and how to get around it if you are. That said, I think it's good to know how. So once again I am not recommending that you circumvent or in any way disable your employer's network monitoring. Circumventing your employer's network monitoring on all but the most occasional basis is certain to throw up a red flag in the IT department and could even get you fired in some cases (depending upon your employment contract). What I'm about to link to is not something I'm recommending you do. However, there are those (like myself) who bristle at invasions of privacy, and Internet monitoring certainly qualifies. This is all just part of the game these days, and it isn't necessarily a bad thing. If you work in investment banking, odds are your employer monitors your Internet usage and probably blocks your access to certain sites (some cretinous firms even block WSO!).
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