I logged in to work via VPN (safari). During my break, I minimized my work session and began browsing adult sites in google chrome for about 10 minutes. I even downloaded a few short clips. That was a big mistake and I regretted doing that. I know my traffic activities are already recorded. Is there anything I can really do?
I checked my ip address vs vpn ip address. Both are different ip. Is this considered split tunnelling? But when im connected to juniper, it said it is connected to my home ip address?
I know i messed up big time. But could someone please tell me if there is a possibility that i might not get caught? Thank you! I appreciate your help and redponses.
Ps please dont say stuff like “what were you thinking” or all other negative comments. I already feel bad as it is…
Update: Thank you everyone for their comments! I feel a little better and I hope ill be fine. I definitely wont do that again!!!
Um, is it possible that they might not notice? Maybe; I don’t really know now much your admins watch what you do. This isn’t something that anyone here will know the answer to.
The best and most responsible thing to do is tell the truth. You were home (I assume not in the office), and while on a break, or not working at the time, you without thinking went onto an adult site.
It can’t be the first time it’s happened there, and assuming they don’t think that you were in the actual office building when you did it, I imagine any reasonable place would understand.
But, this is just coming from a naive internet stranger who knows no more about where you work than any other internet stranger.
Typically, if there’s no reason for somebody to be checking up on your browsing history then you have nothing to worry about. But sometimes there are filters that set off signals to it groups for certain activity and you might have tripped one of those. No way to tell.
as someone in IT, i can tell you those guys really don’t give a hoot, unless streaming services start eating into bandwidth cap and we get charged for overages, THEN we start lookign wtf has been eating up our pipe and begin shutting down MLB and NBA high definition streams. fuck that shit, you people have 3x27" monitors to do work (that was the requisition request), not so you can put up an HD stream of the astros game on the left screen.
Learn all you can about how corporate VPNs work. In particular, find out if your VPN routes all your traffic, or just the traffic going to your corporation.
If it’s the latter, then a site like fucksuck.com won’t go to your corporation. Unless you work for Fuck Suck.
It probably won’t get caught. Let me tell you, the average executive actually watches quite a bit of porn. A one time use won’t be a flag, but I don’t recommend doing it often.
If the vpn let the traffic though and it wasn’t blocked then it safe to say your IT guys won’t care. Why? Because it should have been blocked in the first place, by your IT guys, to prevent this exact situation from happening.
Unless a content filter admin is specifically told to scour your specific logs (if they are even logging by user connection) it will go unnoticed. Most admins couldn’t care less and will not bother with you unless you are bothering his network.
as someone in IT, i can tell you those guys really don’t give a hoot,
My company has an automatic scanner and sends out alerts…how I know this…searched info for shady massage parlors out of curiosity for abt 5 mins…guess what. … my HR calls me after a month and wanted to know if I needed counselling. .WTF!!!..
