Company Wifi and VPNs
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Anonymous
| If I'm using a VPN on my computer at work, the employer can not determine what sites I visit aside from the VPN site, correct? |
Anonymous
| Why are you going to sketchy sites that you want to hide from your employer? Seems stupid. |
Anonymous
No, I'm job hunting to escape from a toxic work environment but I need to keep this one until I land the next one. |
Anonymous
| Use a different computer for job search. |
Anonymous
| If it's a work-managed machine they might still have installed some type of screen-scraping or spying software on it. Like someone else said better to use a personal machine. |
Anonymous
| Do not use your work computer for anything you don't want your employer to see. They can see everything. |
Anonymous
Incorrect. If you have a VPN installed and use it to read the NY Times all day at work, all your IT administrator sees is that you have a browser window open and it is connected to a VPN. Where you use that VPN to take you is encrypted. Concealing your browsing history is like 95% of the reason to use a VPN. |
Anonymous
lol wrong OP, just assume that everything you do on a corporate computer can be monitored. |
Anonymous
+1 This is what I did. I literally never used my work phone or work computer to do anything not job-specific related. Job search is personal so I used my computer. I actually had two jobs at once and used separate computers. |
Anonymous
Not wrong. 100% right. And no one said anything about corporate, moron. |
Anonymous
Honestly, please stop talking about things your don't understand. At a minimum, your browser history is stored locally regardless of VPN usage and can be easily accessed by an administrator, let alone an EDR agent or similar. And "If I'm using a VPN on my computer at work" pretty clearly implies using a work computer. |
Anonymous
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It depends.
Are you using a computer that has IT admin control, or are you using a totally personally owned / installed /managed device, but are connecting to office wifi same as at Starbucks? |
Anonymous
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Wireless vs. wired connection does not make a difference.
I assume that OP is using his company's network and computer to connect to an outside VPN provider. Correct? If so, and if the company has root-level access to the computer, then, yes, the company potentially has access to everything that the computer does, regardless of whether the network traffic is encrypted or not. Do most employers engage in this level of spying on their employees? Unlikely, but possible. If this is a personal device or if the company does not have root-level access then, yes, the VPN traffic should only be visible as VPN traffic, assuming that everything (including DNS queries) goes across the VPN. |
Anonymous
+10 |
Anonymous
| Related question for DC. Uses a work laptop and uses it solely for work. However the outlook email is also on personal phone along with several other personal email account (work doesn’t provide phones). Can any internet searches from phone be seen from work email in search history? |