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One thing that helped me get past this feeling was looking around at other desks and realizing that either a. no one cares what you are doing because they are t
by beart 7y ago
One thing that helped me get past this feeling was looking around at other desks and realizing that either a. no one cares what you are doing because they are too busy working on their own stuff or b. half the office is watching youtube anyway.
- andrei_says_ 7y agoAlso remember that your company likely logs everyone’s web activity in an easily searcheable format.
- cosmodisk 7y agoWhile this is hardly an unknown fact amongst HN readers, a lot of people get very surprised when told about this.I've seen some of my colleagues going to private mode to browse something not work related, and when I explain that tbis won't help at all, they are almost shocked.
- nswest23 7y agoyou mean everyone doesn't just use their phones for browsing non-work related things?
- cosmodisk 7y agoThey do- most of them connected to the company's WiFi :)
- pkalinowski 7y agoBut company doesn't know who has phone with given MAC address, while computers MACs are probably assigned to employee.
- andrei_says_ 7y agoI’m wondering if the new Brave browser’s Tor-based private mode makes a difference. Many companies have systems circumventing https via additional certificates—effectively a man in the middle attack.
- alexeiz 7y agoI am shocked, shocked to find that non-work related browsing is going on here!
- ghostly_s 7y agoAs someone who actually works on the IT-side of this, your statement is technically correct but my experience suggests a vanishingly-small number of employers actually monitor this data in any rigorous way. The only time I've ever seen an org reviewing web logs was in response to a specific formal HR complaint.