Turn off your personal phones WiFi when at work. A manager and a co worker accessed sensitive information on my phone and used it against me. Photos iTunes chase bank photos.
Getting your jollies by invading people’s privacy should be against the law
The most glaring aspect of your reply is the entitlement. You come off as bitter that Maury still hasn’t found your father after you were conceived in the porta potty at the company picnic 30 years ago.
Reason number 1 why people are leaving:
people not working and taking this S__t seriously.
The ppl replying are the ones who complain about all the work they have
https://www.thelayoff.com/p/@2mqm+1fwwS1m4
For someone who’s not taking this thread seriously you certainly are taking this seriously.
If you carry your Company phone with you all the time, they will use it to track you, watch and listen, even at night or on your off days. Tip to the wise - only turn on your Company phone when on Company business, otherwise turn it off.
Why are u riding the company’s d__k on a dead forum? Dont u have work to do?
Yes. Happened to me! They got into my photos and found a pic of me and a neighbor. They were certain i was having an affair.
Another time they got into a girls stuff on her phone and found her almost nu-e photos and had a field day.
As posted before, nothing is free.
This post is so d-mb.
"A manager and a co worker" - if they can access your private phone data unauthorized, they are wasting their skills working at XOM.
"accessed sensitive information on my phone" - no way, modern phones have really good security features. Tell us it's an iPhone and we 100% know you're making sh-t up.
"and used it against me." - used against you how?
"Photos iTunes chase bank photos." - what sh-t sensitive information you have on iTunes? Oh, so it is an iPhone! So your manager and coworker are more skilled than the FBI on hacking Apple's software without user permission, wow, I really believe you.
"Getting your jollies by invading people’s privacy should be against the law" - It is, if this were true you should be talking to a lawyer, not posting on a dead forum like this one.
Stupid troll.
Can they monitor HTTP pretty easily? Yea. But you should NEVER visit a website that uses HTTP not HTTPS, even at home. A VPN and TOR won’t protect you from an HTTP only site. Nothing will. HTTPS they can just see where a device connects to, that’s it really. So what?
“Call & text logs
Text messages
Voice messages
Images or photos”
Switchvpn.net/blog
One question we get constantly asked by our community is, “Can my WiFi provider see my search history?”
In this article, we want to expand on that and provide a comprehensive answer.
But first things first.
Yes, potentially, your WiFi provider or a WiFi owner can see what sites you visit.
However, the ability to check what you do on WiFi depends on a variety of factors.
The main ones are:
Type of router you were connected to
Implementation of a TLS/SSL certificate on the website you visited
Presence of an active VPN connection
Let’s also not forget that your WiFi provider can try to be using packet sniffing tools like, for example, WireShark.
From that point, everything gets way trickier, and therefore we strongly recommend that you should keep your VPN on all the time.
Do WiFi Routers Track Internet History
Yes, they do.
Old WiFi routers aren’t meant to be used for Internet traffic tracking on their own, meaning one would have to have some pretty extensive technical knowledge and a set of right tools to check your WiFi history through a router.
That being said, if you connect to a newer WiFi router that comes with a built-in tracking feature and pre-configured software, your browsing privacy will become very questionable.
So all-in-all, Internet history can be tracked on a WiFi router.
But when it comes to old routers, one needs to be somewhat tech-savvy to make this happen.
WiFi Browsing History: What Can Be Monitored
Unfortunately, things that can be monitored on WiFi aren’t limited to browsing history only.
There is much more what your WiFi provider can see.
For example:
The exact time when you connected to the Internet
Time that you spent online
Time spent on a particular website
Specific URLs you visited on a particular website
Unencrypted HTTP websites data
Source & destination IP addresses
HTTP vs HTTPS
When you enter a website URL into your address bar, you may notice that each domain starts with either http:// or https://.
These are the two types of transfer protocols that websites and web browsers use to send and receive data packets over the web.
HTTP stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol.
HTTPS is an advanced version of HTTP.
It’s referred to as Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure.
The key difference between these protocols is the implementation of a TLS/SSL certificate on top of HTTP.
The TLS/SSL certificate is a global standard security technology that allows secure communication between a web browser and a server.
In other words, all the data passing through an SSL-backed website is encrypted to some extent.
So, if you visit a page on an HTTPS website, your WiFi admin won’t see the content of the page and what exactly you were doing on there.
However, he will still be able to see what websites you visited and what pages on those websites you opened.
Can WiFi Provider See Your History On A Phone
Yes. If you use a smartphone to surf the Internet, your WiFi provider or a WiFi owner can see your browsing history.
Except for browsing history, they can also see the following information:
Apps you were using
Source & destination IP addresses
Unencrypted HTTP websites data
However, let’s assume your WiFi admin wants to see everything you do online bad enough, and he's invested some resources into a logging infrastructure.
Then, even your delicate data can be subject to monitoring.
For instance:
Call & text logs
Text messages
Voice messages
Images or photos
That’s, of course, more than enough to completely ruin your privacy and personal life. But, everything can be even worse if hackers intercept the traffic you transmit over WiFi.
Then they may easily steal your account credentials, passwords, credit card details, and other valuable information no matter what device you use to access the Internet.
The truth is that WiFi is flawed and, by its nature, open technology.
So, unless you protect yourself with VPN encryption, you can never be confident in the security of your data.
Can WiFi Owner See What Sites I Visit
Yes, definitely. A WiFi owner can see what websites you visit while using WiFi as well as the things that you search on the Internet.
There are lots of routers with a built-in tracking feature from companies like Netgear.
When deployed, such a router will track your browsing activities and log your search history so that a WiFi owner could easily check what websites you were visiting on a wireless connection.
Furthermore, if this person is a tech nerd, he or she can also use special software to check your browsing history on any type of router.
How To Hide Browsing History On WiFi
Generally, there are 2 ways to hide your browsing history on WiFi.
You can use either Tor or a VPN.
Tor Browser
You can use the Tor browser to hide your search history from the WiFi owner.
All traffic that is routed through the Tor network is encrypted, so nobody will see what websites you were browsing.
However, it’s still possible to see that you established a connection to the Tor network, and that itself may be quite suspicious.
Also, Tor is really slow for things like video streaming, so you’ll be literally confined to certain activities that don’t require high-speed connectivity.
VPN
The other way to prevent somebody from sneakily keeping tabs on your search history is to use a virtual private network.
With its help, you can anonymously browse the Internet, even if you’re connected to someone’s WiFi.
That’s because a VPN assigns you a completely different IP address, hides your identity, and solidly encrypts your Internet traffic.
I’m calling BS on this one
My supervisor in Houston told us toNEVER use company WiFi. ESP not for personal devices.
Share the pictures, please
Lots of comments from HR/IT in this one…. This must be the best post to happen in a long time!
If you leave this website, I know it can be scary out there, but if u leave you can find other sites where they talk about this very thing.
And you might learn something :).
Me thinks thou dost protest too much!
Of course they are nothing is free!
This is the most ludicrous post I’ve seen. If it’s a company owned device, you are an id--t for putting personal information on it.
Someone wants more bandwidth for themself.
So you were using a company phone or your personal phone? Also what are chase bank photos?
Yes. Any company device is for your convenience only.
All transactions or communications of any kind are company property.
That's longstanding policy. Should be communicated more frequently.
Visiting this site for example would be very humorous from your company laptop.
Haw haw.
Unless you were using company phone this is impossible. Unless XOM IT can break modern cryptography in which case we don't need to pump oil anymore to make money