Hi, I was wondering if my company firewall proxy whatever snoop my https traffic? I heard that was a possibility.
I have a basic computer provided by the IT department, can internet explorer be tempared by them in such a way that https traffic is decodable?
2006-11-19 21:21:39 · 10 answers · asked by Ronald K 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
So they can see my yahoo password for example? Or any company banking details?
2006-11-19 21:36:05 · update #1
Okay let's get this clear. They can see the traffic, for example they can see you connected to your Yahoo email account, or your online banking. But they can't see the actual contents of the traffic as long as it is encrypted with a strong cipher (which is the default these days).
For example imagine your a traffic monitor and you can see all these cars passing by on the motorway. You can see the cars, the colour and the make, but not how many people are there or what do they wear inside their cars.
There are ways to bypass that but I don't think a company would normally be bothered to do this unless they had a valid reason.
2006-11-19 23:20:06 · answer #1 · answered by dotari 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
While they can snoop into your Internet activities as well as what is on your computer, it is unlikely unless there is a good reason to. I have worked in IT quite a bit and know from experience that we have better things to do than monitor the personal activities of one person. Also, the level of security, traffic monitoring as well as the logs kept (or not kept) determine how visible things are - unless a red flag is raised (you are not abusive) it really is not an issue. There is a high level of non work related acivities going on in most companies (I now yawn when I run across porn on a computer in n office). Still, it is not worth it. Also, just food for thought, all of those IMs are logged into a file - I would keep those cleaned up and deleted also.
2006-11-19 21:38:35 · answer #2 · answered by whome 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
passwords and encrypted data can be traced, but not really "viewed", the most IT people are gonna look at is general activity, if you are using the pc to check your email or do some banking, for personal accounts, (and that's allowed) they aren't gonna bother, but if you are logging into unapproved sites or surfing outside of company paramaters and thats not allowed you could be tracked but primarily by cookies and history, they don't care about passwords, they can simply block you from going where you aren't supposed to.
2006-11-19 23:32:11 · answer #3 · answered by Helping Since 1969 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We don't know if your boss is snooping on you, but from a technological and legal standpoint it is 100% possible.
Remember what you do at work is property of your company, and too often are people fired for misbehaving on the Internet at work.
2006-11-19 21:24:36 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely! I have a son who works in computer forensics. They can find anything, even if you think you have deleted it. Be careful of what you are doing on your computer at work!!
2006-11-19 21:30:47 · answer #5 · answered by Ms. G. 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
firewall hampering yes -
shadowing - Y E S
that means they can tap your computer - and see the screen you are looking at - and record it
all legal - because you are using their computer and T1 connection
be cool - keep your job !
2006-11-19 21:24:57 · answer #6 · answered by tom4bucs 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oh yeah.
They will have logs on what everyone does on the internet.
And trying to delete the history from your own machine won't help, they have it on the servers.
2006-11-19 21:24:17 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yep!
And your IM conversations!
2006-11-19 21:27:01 · answer #8 · answered by purpleklipse 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dude I hope that you arent looking at porn at work
2006-11-19 22:08:14 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
he avoid this stuff , i would recon you open sites from www.myschoolproxy.com and your activites cannot be traced
2006-11-19 23:11:51 · answer #10 · answered by ashess 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋