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December 9, 2005

Your Privacy At Quixtar

By QBlog in Quixtar

This morning Wired published a nice piece about worker privacy that I think might be particularly helpful to Quixtar employess in light of recent firings and resignations at the Big Q.

If you have internet access at work, there's a very good chance your employer has a system in place to monitor your online activities.

So, if you're concerned about privacy, take heed. Under current U.S. law, there's little you can do to protect the confidentiality of your internet use on the job. Here's a rundown of the rights you don't have at work.

In fact David Ellyatt, who recently resigned his position as Quixtar's Web Marketing Manager, posted some similar warnings on his blog just last month.

There has been a lot of discussion at Quixtar over the last couple of weeks as to what is ethical or legal to do on work time, or when using a Quixtar owned laptop outside of work time.

The message is clear — when you're at work assume that your every electronic move is being monitored and logged. Keep your nose clean and to the grindstone and you'll be just fine.

UPDATE: It appears that David Ellyatt's Quixtar and Beyond blog has been removed from the Internet. It's also gone from the "Official Quixtar Blog Index" page.

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Well, it should really be common sense these days to know that nothing is secure if you're using someone else's system. That being said, don't think SSL protects you either.

I haven't found a way to get through IPSEC (used with VPNs) yet, but, those users who think using SSHv2 and SSL to connect to various sites got a rude awakening as I monitored their transmissions in real time.

There are tons of tools like ettercap (ssl real time) and cain and abel (http://oxid.it) that allow you to even record VOIP conversations on a network. I can do that all transparently without the end user every knowing (Its easier as the network admin because I can just port-mirror the transmission over, instead of having to man-in-the-middle it.)

That being said, you've really got no right using someone elses resources for your "own" means.

Your links are also broken, Eric...BeyondQuixtar is gone :(

Posted by: Mevi | December 9, 2005 11:15 PM

his blog is still there, many new entries are gone

Posted by: Imran | December 9, 2005 11:24 PM

My bad, cache, blog is gone indeed.

Posted by: Imran | December 10, 2005 1:16 AM





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