Why YSK: It appears several Lemmy Instances are flagged as suspicious and at least 1 instance intentionally using the name of ransomware. A couple of the big enterprise monitoring suites (Fortiguard, ZScaler) will flag your account and may end up with you being pulled into an office for an explanation, or worse.
TL;DR: Keep browsing to your local instance at work for now.
Serious question: there isn’t any tracking software installed on my work computer, and I use a VPN browser extension. Is it still possible for my employer to see what I’m doing?
I’m a systems admin. Last week, I had an employee using a VPN to try and hide their traffic. My monitoring software caught it. I couldn’t see the traffic, but I could see it connected to a known Tor IP. My system saw the fishy connection and sent the alert. Just be careful and don’t assume you’re completely safe with the VPN.
It’s best to assume your IT department can see everything you do, and keep personal stuff on personal devices.
How could you see it was connected to a known tor IP? Would you not just see the IP of the VPN server and not the final destination?
And VPN servers are often flagged for all kinds of shit because some use them for tor or spam.
If you use a vpn, I don’t think they can see your traffic
Depending on the quality of your IT department; it’s quite possible that tracking software could be on your work computer and you simply cannot detect it. And yes, corporate tracking can easily detect what you are doing even if you use a VPN. It’s best if you simply use work computer for work only. Don’t even check gmail on it. Don’t even link your google account in your browser.
Depends on who owns the network as well and if you’re connected to a corporate VPN. The rule of thumb is that you can’t expect privacy if you’re not the sole admin of that computer.