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Your Dwindling Privacy Rights
Tuesday April 22, @05:47PM
I'm writing this at work. So it is quite possible, and even likely, that it will be monitored.
Now, with these things, I often wonder, do they really care? There are literally thousands of people here in this building. Do they really want to track us all? Is it even feasible? It is feasible. Even quite likely. We just received an email warning us that a couple were caught "flirting" over Sametime (Lotus Notes) IM. Christ. Give it a rest.
Most single people who work here don't have a life outside of work. Where the hell else are they supposed to meet people? Anyway, that's not the point of this. The point is, I know what they track. They track work email, work chat, and http connections. And their http connections are limited to first level domains. So what does that mean to me? Google Talk (TCP port 443 or 5222) is not tracked, and port 22 is impossible to eavesdrop on. So what does that mean?
Websites: docs.google.com, mail.google.com, google.com/calendar, etc all resolve to google.com in the tracker logs.
Chat: Google Talk client is an efficient alternative to Sametime. (Note: It COULD be tracked. I don't think it is).
Email: Gmail is not tracked.
Other: VNC, bitch!
Don't get me wrong. I have plenty of work to do. I would just like to maintain some sort of privacy where I spend half of my life. Thank you for reading.
Now, with these things, I often wonder, do they really care? There are literally thousands of people here in this building. Do they really want to track us all? Is it even feasible? It is feasible. Even quite likely. We just received an email warning us that a couple were caught "flirting" over Sametime (Lotus Notes) IM. Christ. Give it a rest.
Most single people who work here don't have a life outside of work. Where the hell else are they supposed to meet people? Anyway, that's not the point of this. The point is, I know what they track. They track work email, work chat, and http connections. And their http connections are limited to first level domains. So what does that mean to me? Google Talk (TCP port 443 or 5222) is not tracked, and port 22 is impossible to eavesdrop on. So what does that mean?
Websites: docs.google.com, mail.google.com, google.com/calendar, etc all resolve to google.com in the tracker logs.
Chat: Google Talk client is an efficient alternative to Sametime. (Note: It COULD be tracked. I don't think it is).
Email: Gmail is not tracked.
Other: VNC, bitch!
Don't get me wrong. I have plenty of work to do. I would just like to maintain some sort of privacy where I spend half of my life. Thank you for reading.
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I am tracked (Score:1)
Yes we are tracked and monitored (electronically) as well as through our electronic pass cards.
Our email is filtered (heavily) - one boss had baby pics sent by an employee filtered out due to the pink skin colour.
No gmail/webmail/google cache/etc here - anything like proxy avoidance is not only blocked, but reported to IT audit automatically. In fact I think anything half clever IT wise would stick out.
Am yet to try remoting in to home, but with the level of IT kno