Information stored on servers at work

I have a personal laptop that I often take to work. Internet access
there is *very* limited; none of the employees, save for the
supervisors, can go anywhere on the internet except our company's
website using our work computers. Our office has a wireless network, as
well, so when things are slow, I'll connect using my laptop through the
company's wireless network.

Question: If I'm on my own personal laptop using their wireless
connection, is there any record of my internet activity left behind, or
stored, on *their* network or any of *their* computers?

Thanx.

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> Question: If I'm on my own personal laptop using their wireless
> connection, is there any record of my internet activity left
> behind, or stored, on *their* network or any of *their* computers?

Maybe. It all depends on how much they care; there's no technical
reason why they can't keep such records.

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On 30 Sep 2005 13:36:14 -0700, (E-Mail Removed) wrote:

>I have a personal laptop that I often take to work. Internet access
>there is *very* limited; none of the employees, save for the
>supervisors, can go anywhere on the internet except our company's
>website using our work computers. Our office has a wireless network, as
>well, so when things are slow, I'll connect using my laptop through the
>company's wireless network.
>
>Question: If I'm on my own personal laptop using their wireless
>connection, is there any record of my internet activity left behind, or
>stored, on *their* network or any of *their* computers?

Sure. If they're Unix servers, then there will be an entry in syslog.
If the company network requires 802.1x authentication, then there will
be an entry in the RADIUS logs. If there's an IDS (intrusion
detection system), all initial connections will be logged. Because of
the apparent efforts your company has put into security, chances are
very high that there will be evidence of your transgressions
somewhere.

Whether there's any evidence of what you're browsing is somewhat less
probable. Most of the "content filtering" type of firewalls I play
with include URL logging. Everything you connect to gets logged. Even
my Linksys BEFW11S4v4 does that using SNMP. Hard to tell from here,
but it's possible that they're logging your URL's.

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(E-Mail Removed) wrote in news:1128112573.992083.319820
@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

> I have a personal laptop that I often take to work. Internet access
> there is *very* limited; none of the employees, save for the
> supervisors, can go anywhere on the internet except our company's
> website using our work computers. Our office has a wireless network, as
> well, so when things are slow, I'll connect using my laptop through the
> company's wireless network.
>
> Question: If I'm on my own personal laptop using their wireless
> connection, is there any record of my internet activity left behind, or
> stored, on *their* network or any of *their* computers?
>
> Thanx.
>

You had best believe that they can track anywhere you have been if you're
assessing the Internet through their network. Sure, you could clear your
machine of any activity. But that leaves the company's firewall logs that
logs network traffic to and from the Internet. They will know what site by
WAN IP you have visited and look it up and what LAN IP on their network
it's coming from and eventually track it back to you.

I worked at a company where the Controller of Finance was in his office
surfing porn sites from his computer during his lunch hour. I was told
about this by a co-worker who at the time his job was working network
security before he moved back to programming, as they watched his activites
through the FW logs. Needless to say, he was terminated but that happened
after he was put in a comer cubical to be embarrassed.

I am sure they will find you if you're doing something you have no business
doing on company time.


Duane

Duane Arnold <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in news:Xns96E1B4D15920Fnotmenotmecom@
207.217.125.201:

> after he was put in a comer cubical to be embarrassed.
>
>

That is *corner*!

On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 13:36:14 -0700, eisenmann68 wrote:

> I have a personal laptop that I often take to work. Internet access
> there is *very* limited; none of the employees, save for the
> supervisors, can go anywhere on the internet except our company's
> website using our work computers. Our office has a wireless network, as
> well, so when things are slow, I'll connect using my laptop through the
> company's wireless network.
>
> Question: If I'm on my own personal laptop using their wireless
> connection, is there any record of my internet activity left behind, or
> stored, on *their* network or any of *their* computers?
>
> Thanx.

Probably.