Sycorax, if you’re wiping your history once a day, then techies cannot tell the difference between you posting on the SDMB or simply reading. The only way in which you could easily tell the difference would be to trace the entire history to see if the user ever went to the post reply page. However, be warned that some supervisors/techies have so little to do with their time that they WILL, in fact, go through your whole history. Since you wipe yours, however, the worst they could do would probably be to fire you on account of visiting the page in the first place, since they can check on your unit through the LAN.
I heard about people losing their job because they sent email on their company computer. Companies are keeping an close eye on those who use computers at work. People have gotten into trouble over downloading inappropiate material. If it’s in own, anyways leave it out!
Where are all the real techies when we need them?
Forget about clearing your history or deleting temp. files. How do you think you get out to the internet from your desk? Yes, of course, you go through the corporate server which can monitor everyone’s internet access.
If you’re worried about it - don’t do it.
If you want to do it - then do it.
If you are caught - you might be in trouble, you might not.
You decide.
Russell
That’s hilarious! You posted to let us know that you didn’t post.
(Of course you meant at work, but it’s still funny).
RusselM is right, most snooping by your employer is done at the server level (assuming you’ve got a proxy server). It’s too difficult and slow to do it on a computer-by-computer basis. The snoop filters can definitely tell the difference between requesting a page and the submission of a form (i.e. posting). Depending on the size of your company, little brother may be using software that just looks for key words and watches activity involving certain file types. I used to think that it was more of a threat to keep us honest, however in the last few years my company (a very large one) has asked three people (that I know of) not to bother coming back in, due to improper use of company resources. We have a pretty liberal policy, so I don’t think checking out the SDMB is a concern here (gee, I hope not, I do it all the time). Two of the folks that got fired were trafficing in internet porn and the third was posting liscense codes for commercial software to a news group. I think the impetus for us is the company doesn’t want us doing anything that they might be held legally accountable for. They don’t seem to be too concerned about productivity… they’ve installed pool tables, ping pong tables, and fooseball tables, plus they have a bunch of computers networked together exclusively to play Quake… Hey, what can I say, it’s a pretty cool company.
ATTGuy - I didn’t post that reply from work! And I didn’t visit the SDMB at work today either. I’m being a good girl.
Cripes, I have so much work, I hardly have the time, although it is nice to take a break occasionally. I used to play solitaire (from a diskette loaded from the home computer), but I’ve had no success in getting my new work computer to take the solitaire from the diskette (I get a bunch of encoded stuff.) I think I’ll chance reading the SDMB occasionally, but I’ll resist the temptation to post. Thanks all.
I wrote:
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In case they’re listening…
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