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oops I was looking at porn while still connected to my work VPN

Prison Mike

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How well do you know your IT department or network admin? Time to send them a package of what they like. Usually one slip up they don't bother reporting or taking action as long as it's not illegal shit.
 
If monitored then yes. Expect an email, or a call to arrange a meeting with hr (unless a bottle of something is on its way to your it manager)

if not, then there is a fair shout your good, as companies tend to deny sites, as an easy block for anybody working on some self lov during company time (wouldn’t recommend testing that out though)

what counts as not messed up porn down in the land of criminals ?
 

cormack12

Gold Member
Depends. Usually most organisations will route internet bound traffic outside the VPN rather than tunnel it through their limited bandwidth, so it will usually bypass any proxy/filter. They don't want people from home downloading windows updates via their VPN, or incurring contention for people with GAF etc. open. That's the ideal config anyway, but lazy organisations may just blanket push down a policy via certificate and route everyone through their default filters as they count your device as on their network.

TL: DR - check your proxy settings and see what's in there. It will differ due to policy and tech staff competence.
Reality - No one is going to pick up or pro-actively scour records for a porn link in the IT. Dept. Reality is your manager will have to request a report via HR/Information Security then IT will give the report to them.
 
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TheContact

Member
Depends. Usually most organisations will route internet bound traffic outside the VPN rather than tunnel it through their limited bandwidth, so it will usually bypass any proxy/filter. They don't want people from home downloading windows updates via their VPN, or incurring contention for people with GAF etc. open. That's the ideal config anyway, but lazy organisations may just blanket push down a policy via certificate and route everyone through their default filters as they count your device as on their network.

TL: DR - check your proxy settings and see what's in there. It will differ due to policy and tech staff competence.
Reality - No one is going to pick up or pro-actively scour records for a porn link in the IT. Dept. Reality is your manager will have to request a report via HR/Information Security then IT will give the report to them.

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ThatGamingDude

I am a virgin
TL: DR - check your proxy settings and see what's in there. It will differ due to policy and tech staff competence.
Reality - No one is going to pick up or pro-actively scour records for a porn link in the IT. Dept. Reality is your manager will have to request a report via HR/Information Security then IT will give the report to them.
Outside of their web filter pinging the manager or secOPs for review; but they still wouldn't give a shit

I'd love to be the one in that HR meeting
"Uh yeah, I was horny and took a break from working and rubbed one out. I forgot to turn off my VPN; shoot me??"
 

cormack12

Gold Member
Outside of their web filter pinging the manager or secOPs for review; but they still wouldn't give a shit

I'd love to be the one in that HR meeting
"Uh yeah, I was horny and took a break from working and rubbed one out. I forgot to turn off my VPN; shoot me??"

Yeah you can set up emails, maybe at a tiny organisation. We have 14,000 employees so that would not be fun.

Code:
ALERT - DOMAIN\JoeSinker has attempted to access category: gambling from 1.1.1.1
Action taken: Request blocked.

Usually it's social media or trending links we pick up on. Say everyone was linked to a vimeo or liveleak video, we'd see the contention go up and then networks would figure out what it was and then it would get blocked - for example the world cup games got a lot of temporary streaming sites blocked.

The requests we usually get for audits our productivity related or 'framed' like that. Like, Sam has not been up to par and we suspect this is because they use the internet excessively. Even then we are only obligated to provide the time and length of sessions and only the 'category' of browsing activity rather then the full URL. Including blocked categories (weapons, sex, gambling etc.)
 

nush

Gold Member
I worked for one company many years ago that implemented a filter on the office internet connection. Some silver tongued demon with a poker face in the product development department made a watertight case that PD needed to have unfiltered internet for "Research" Purposes. It worked.

Reality: We just wanted to continue to email links to fucked up shit from Consumption Junction, Orgrish and disgusting porn to each other and also to carry on downloading pirated software.
 
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Deleted member 1159

Unconfirmed Member
Don’t look at porn on a a work device ever.

Don’t connect to work VPN from a personal device.

this isn’t Nam, Cunth Cunth , there are rules.
 
A couple of the it guys jokenly told people at work that they can monitor what you are doing on your home pc if you connect your work laptop to home wifi

..they were joking...right?
 

Pejo

Gold Member
If your work doesn't invest in a web filtering service to prevent employees from browsing to malicious/inappropriate sites while connected to your VPN, they probably aren't actively monitoring traffic. They could probably still find out if given a reason, though.
 
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SLoWMoTIoN

Unconfirmed Member
If you get fired for armpit sex you can talk about that in your next job interview.
 
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