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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do not use your work computer for anything you don't want your employer to see. They can see everything.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

lol wrong

OP, just assume that everything you do on a corporate computer can be monitored.[/quote]

Not wrong. 100% right. And no one said anything about corporate, moron.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

You are way in over your head. It's simple to clear history, cache and logs on the machine being used. You can set it to wipe 15 minutes It's even simpler to prevent that from being stored on the machine anyway. And unless IT is logged into your machine they would never see it. And if your company has $250 an hour to hire a babysitter, per machine, then you'd already know this. No one outside of the IC does anything remotely like this. If you are a research analyst at NIH, no one has a damn clue what you are doing on a VPN. Ask me how I know.[/quote]

I think it's fairly common to have transparent web proxies in corporations. Given that most corporate firewalls block every but http and https, your "encrypted" connection to the VPN isn't as secure as you would like to believe since they are tunneling over https in most cases.

Ask me how I know.[/quote]

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