I have 2 ISPs - a local one at home and a national one at work. Would I be safer using only the national ISP for my hobby browsing?
You should very carefully consider the consequences before using your internet connection at work to do any browsing or e-mail. As mentioned, your local ISP is unlikely to care what sites you are visiting. Your workplace may well have someone whose job it is to make sure you are not misusing the company's bandwidth. You'll only know they are doing it after you get called into your boss' office.
Can we please expand on the Phone/Email thread below. Let's assume "anonymous" email, and lots of visits to TER and provider websites from your home ISP. What tracks are being left behind?
One of the posters below says that even with Hotmail or other anonymous emails, your IP address is logged. By whom? Hotmail or your local ISP?
If you use your local ISP service to visit TER and provider websites, how easy is it for someone at the ISP to look at your browsing history? Could a nosy busybody there out you?
I have 2 ISPs - a local one at home and a national one at work. Would I be safer using only the national ISP for my hobby browsing?
Are there any services that "anonymize" you - i.e. resend your emails and allow you to browse thru them, sending their ISP info instead of yours?
Thanks in advance to the geeks who can enlighten us.
Can we please expand on the Phone/Email thread below. Let's assume "anonymous" email, and lots of visits to TER and provider websites from your home ISP. What tracks are being left behind? - lots of traks, but many are expensive or technically difficult to trace.
One of the posters below says that even with Hotmail or other anonymous emails, your IP address is logged. By whom? Hotmail or your local ISP? Both, but Hotmail only logs your ISP, you then then to check the ISP logs to see which particlar customer was assigned a particular IP at a given time--
If you use your local ISP service to visit TER and provider websites, how easy is it for someone at the ISP to look at your browsing history? Could a nosy busybody there out you? Very easy, but remember, unless your in a small town with a small ISP, there re literally thusand of log files, someone would have to be very focused to focus on you..and ould probably lose their job if caught-bad pratice for business nd violates most ISP poicies if not legal restrictions I have 2 ISPs - a local one at home and a national one at work. Would I be safer using only the national ISP for my hobby browsing? YES
Are there any services that "anonymize" you - i.e. resend your emails and allow you to browse thru them, sending their ISP info instead of yours? Yes, do a gogle search; for simple browsing, use www.vtunnel.com but then you lose the ability to have a cokie placed on your computer and can access content that requires a log-in
If your that cocerned, get a laptop, go to a Starbucks or other smilar place that offers free WIFI and do browsing from there..unless they know you are have cameras, very hard to trace. Thanks in advance to the geeks who can enlighten us.
I have 2 ISPs - a local one at home and a national one at work. Would I be safer using only the national ISP for my hobby browsing?
You should very carefully consider the consequences before using your internet connection at work to do any browsing or e-mail. As mentioned, your local ISP is unlikely to care what sites you are visiting. Your workplace may well have someone whose job it is to make sure you are not misusing the company's bandwidth. You'll only know they are doing it after you get called into your boss' office.
Most of the companies log all the traffic going in and out. They might also randomly audit your computer without your knowledge. Some companies might even install keyboard logging software on your computer. If you read your employee manual, you'll probably find a statement that tells you all data and files stored on the company computers are the company property.
Lastly don't forget about the security cameras running 24 hours. If a security guy catches you while browsing TER, there might be very serious consequences including immediate termination of employment.
Some companies install software to log your website access at the router, so deleting your caches and cookies, and even reformatting your hard drive, won't help you.
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