• Pons_Aelius
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    2182 years ago

    Never do anything on work machines/networks you don’t want to have to explain to hr/legal.

    • @ech0@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      Sr. Systems Admin here. IT does not give 2 shits about what you browse UNLESS something is reported or something trips our Alerts (has to be something major like Child Porn).

      We don’t sit there and actively monitor and watch what you are browsing. We investigate when something is reported by a worker or an Alert/Filter gets tripped

      HR also doesn’t know unless we tell them.

      • Ensign Rick
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        312 years ago

        Second. I once had a staff member come to me all embarrassed because someone sent a dick pick via some dating app while they was on our corporate wifi. I was like, “I promise we don’t care”.

              • @ech0@lemmy.world
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                Uh no? Most organizations use preinstaed certs. They are usually baked into the Windows image for deployment… They are what allow a corporate device to connect to WiFi networks without a password.

                • @Lyricism6055@lemmy.world
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                  I’m not sure what you’re saying? Those certs log to somewhere and in my experience HR is nowhere near technically literate enough to monitor and track that stuff.

                  Usually a manager asks a sysadmin to watch someone’s stuff, then the sysadmin and manager tell HR what they find.

                  We had a contractor spending 90% of his day on reddit who got fired. Hr wouldn’t have been able to pull this info since they don’t have access to the system that tracks it

            • @DM_ME_SQUIRRELS@lemmy.world
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              22 years ago

              That only applies to work devices. If you’re using your personal device, they would be able to see traffic to/from a dating website but not the actual content.

        • @winterayars@sh.itjust.works
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          32 years ago

          Probably for audit/investigation reasons.

          IT generally doesn’t care (doesn’t want to care) but you still shouldn’t do personal stuff on work machines/profiles.

    • teft
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      362 years ago

      Also do some really weird things that are innocuous so the HR lady looks at you weird from now on.