if you use someones wireless internet connection, can they see what sites you were on?

Question

thank you.

Answer 1

Many routers will keep a log of domains visited, especially if the owner has enabled any kind of security or firewall.

Answer 2

If they have a firewall installed on their computer, it will log everything you do through their Internet connection. As using someone else's wireless without their permission is a crime, that information could be used to bring both criminal and civil charges against you.

Also, if the network you are using should be used by owner illegally, they could easily produce logs showing that you have hacked into their network (but not show what you did once in the network) and claim that it was you - not them - which committed the crime. You could find yourself facing charges for a crime committed by someone else.

I have worked in IT and security for 15 years, and see people daily getting in trouble because they have hacking into someone else's wireless network.

I strongly recommend that you stop using their network and set up your own before you find yourself in serious trouble.

Answer 3

As a generalisation no, but someone with serious computer knowledge certainly could.

Answer 4

If they have software they can. Ony people that are trying to catch there significant others doing something they shouldn't use it for the most part.
Don

Answer 5

no, they can only see them if they have access to your pc, or you use a pc with internet access that is hooked up to a network (that you do not own) (like school,ect)

Answer 6

yes they can

Answer 7

Yes with a little digging.............jr

Answer 8

only if it is on their computer.