Re: RE: How to stop Admins from sniffing ?

[flur () d1f org]

You cannot prevent the admin of a computer from being able to intercept your data. If you are on a windows corporate 
network, your admin may have full access on your computer due to group policy. You cannot protect yourself easily from 
these admins. They can interfere with your vpn software, install keyloggers, screenscrapers, etc etc. 

BUT...

You can prevent network admins from sniffing your traffic by using encryption. Two quick ways you can do this:

1. use a vpn. this will encrypt everything your computer does and send it to a specific point-- which will they relay 
it to its actual destination. typical scenario: you connect to your computer at home via encrypted connection, and let 
your home computer be your 'proxy' to the internet. Note that you are not protected from your home ISP or your home 
network for that matter.

2. Use encryption where possible. Visit only https pages- although this will not prevent the admin from knowing where 
you're going (admin can see tcp endpoints), they wont know what you are doing there. It is possible for an admin to 
tell how long you stay on a site though even if you're using SSL on the web, so be careful. If the sites/services you 
want to securely connect to don't support SSL, you should consider the first option instead.

You can get free VPN server and client software from the openssl project (its free, opensource, and available for 
win/mac/linux/bsd/unix): http://openvpn.net/

Good luck.
~flurdoing

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