Re: How to stop Admins from sniffing ?

[Ruben Alves <ruben () multibase pt>]

I completely agree with Edmund, as an employee you have to respect the 
policies and the rules of the company you are working for. Anyway, if 
they are monitoring you with ethereal (oups.. wireshark) they have to 
spend a lot of time to see exactly what you are doing. And no one is 
doing this kind of hard work...
Anyway, you should think this way: network admin is payed to do this 
job, and you are payed to do yours, not for establishing secure 
connection to your home in order to see websites that you shouldn't be 
visiting...
Solution: talk with them/him, and try to resolve the best way (social 
one) and focus on your job...

Regards

//Ruben

cc wrote:
> Didn't you write?:
>   
> > I work in a small organisation and the system and network administrators here are constantly monitoring all data in the 
> > network. I have seen them running Etherreal on their systems and from their talks i am sure that they know who is doing 
> > what. I m using windows XP and i have a personal firewall installed which pop's up every few minutes saying that there 
> > is a port scan attack going on. And when i looked up that IP address it belongs to tbe system being used by the 
> > administrator. I have tried talking to my bosses about this but not happened ( maybe the admins convinced them that they are 
> > not doing anything like that or its happening by bosses permisson).  i know since they are in same network as me its easy 
> > for them to sniff all traffic and everything.
> >
> >     
>
> This all depends entirely on your company's policies (computer or
> otherwise).  Are  the Sys and Net admins sanctioned by the management
> to administer these monitors?
>
> You are, after all, working in a company and not at home and thusly,
> you'd have to follow the rules and regulations as dictated by
> your company.  I am assuming that the computer you are using is
> company property.  In my company,  employees are not told they
> can't bring their own notebooks; but they are strictly prohibited
> in plugging it into the company network.  The moment they do
> that, it is a breach in the network.
>
> Also, by encrypting your traffic, and knowing your sys/net admins are
> watching, would you not think they'd suspect something is wrong and
> take it as their job to investigate the reasons for your secrecy?
> You are doing company-work, are you not?  They know your job nature.
> If you feel that your job requires encrypted traffic, then it is
> in your best interest to talk to the sys/net admins and the
> management.
>
>   
> > What i want to know from you ppl is that is there is anyway way to stop this ? 
> > is it possible for me to encrypt all traffic going out from my system ? 
> >     
>
> Take it up with the management and the sys/net admins.  It really
> isn't our place to circumvent whatever computer system policies
> and protections you have going in your company.
>
>
> Edmund
>
>
>
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