Every so often someone asks me if they should be worried if their internet access is being monitored at work; my answer is always maybe.  It’s definitely possible to figure out what sites are being visited, entire IM conversations can be logged (so use encryption), who and what your emailing (so don’t use your corporate account for personal use) (and don’t assume that just because it’s deleted it’s gone forever).

My intention is not to make you paranoid.  It’s very unlikely that you’re being watched, unless you’re constantly hitting “questionable”  sites or the higher ups want to monitor you — but I suspect you’d know if that were the case. (reprimands, complaints)

Please note that the above is not the official policy of my workplace. I’m only informing you of what is possible.

The link below provides screenshots, video, and background on one such incident. I LOL’d. ^^ I don’t care what you do at home, but please don’t do this at work.

So we started monitoring him on the camera and using DameWare so we can view his desktop and see just what the hell he does all day since he has no actual work to do at the moment. Aside from the grunts and noises which came as expected, we noticed some interesting sites/chats going on. I will let the screenshots speak for themselves–

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Categories: Humor, Technology