commonman
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At the huge organization I work for, analysts/accountants like me recently received new Dell laptops. These laptops have DVD drives and pre-loaded software to play DVDs. Recently, I watched a few DVDs that, though I am not ashamed of, I would not want my employer knowing about.
My question is this: is it possible or probable that my employer has installed some sort of software that can record the name or other data about the DVDs I watch on this laptop?
In my more paranoid states I am thinking that it's all a set up. Give the employees these great new DVD capable laptops, let them keep them for a while, and then take them back and download the record of the DVDs they have watched and the time of day they watched them. If they were inappropriate DVDs watched during work hours, then nail them!
Note, since watching these DVDs, I have not connected the laptop into the company's net. I know that there are people out there in our organization whose job it is to monitor our internet use and, of course they can easily do this since we are on a company network and a T1 line. Because of this, I have a separate, wireless notebook computer I use for all personal internet use (when at work).
My question is this: is it possible or probable that my employer has installed some sort of software that can record the name or other data about the DVDs I watch on this laptop?
In my more paranoid states I am thinking that it's all a set up. Give the employees these great new DVD capable laptops, let them keep them for a while, and then take them back and download the record of the DVDs they have watched and the time of day they watched them. If they were inappropriate DVDs watched during work hours, then nail them!
Note, since watching these DVDs, I have not connected the laptop into the company's net. I know that there are people out there in our organization whose job it is to monitor our internet use and, of course they can easily do this since we are on a company network and a T1 line. Because of this, I have a separate, wireless notebook computer I use for all personal internet use (when at work).