Help Opened SS at work

[AnonymousRobin]

Title says it basically, I went out at work (I work in an office) for some fresh air and took my phone out to look at the site, I didn't realise my phone was still connected to the work WiFi through my ID, I went on the site and viewed a few threads before realising. How f'd am I? If they flag up the site (which has suicide clearly in it) or even just spot it then I may be stuck with a write up or a wellness check or idek what and I'm super stressed about it

 

[Dayrain]

Do you mean it's just in the cache?

 

[AnonymousRobin]

Do you mean it's just in the cache?

I searched it on their Internet and opened new threads, lose multiple ss pages on their Internet, and IT monitors the WiFi because it's a large company

 

[Dayrain]

I searched it on their Internet and opened new threads, lose multiple ss pages on their Internet, and IT monitors the WiFi because it's a large company

Ok. Then I have no idea, sorry.

 

[MidnightDream]

Fully depends on how strict they are at monitoring internet usage.. If its a large company it might go under the radar

 

[Yaffle]

Obviously it's not blocked, if it isn't flagged somehow then I doubt their IT dept is going to manually check every website.

My gut feeling is they'd have blocked it if it's an issue to them.

I take it you weren't abiding by the golden rule, always use a VPN! Protonmail VPN is a good free one and connects really quickly.

 

[AnonymousRobin]

Can a vpn prevent them seeing my traffic? Sorry I'm not very good with technology >.<

 

[Sukui]

Can a vpn prevent them seeing my traffic? Sorry I'm not very good with technology >.<

If i understand it correctly, a VPN pretty much hides your location/ identity from everyone outside the network you used.
But it if someone has direct access to the rooter you were connected with when you browsed this site, it doesn't matter that you used a VPN.

But tbh i heavily doubt there are people in your company monitoring the internet traffic that closely.
You didn't do anything illegal and thats the only thing your company would care about.

 

[idk3]

I may be stuck with a write up or a wellness check or idek what and I'm super stressed about it

Just say you were curious after reading about the site on NYT and BBC

 

[Abyssal]

I mean, I watched porn on my highschool computer, never heard a damn thing about it even after having my class hijacked by another teacher to warn us of the repercussions.

I can't tell you whether or not you're fucked, but I doubt it. I sometimes wonder if people lie about their stuff being monitored to scare employees into doing work.

 

[mertvets]

i'm a sysadmin, unless the company has dedicated monitoring software, they'd probably only notice the DNS queries on their firewall... if they look at it at all.
unless your phone's hostname is something obvious like "John's iPhone", it's likely they won't be able to figure out who that phone belongs to either.

now i obviously have no idea how your IT department set everything up; they could've made you sign in with your user to use the wlan or whatever...
overall, i wouldn't worry about it, if questions are asked, you can easily talk your way out, make some stuff up.


as to using a VPN, i'd generally advise using cellular data (if you'd like to, with the VPN connected) over being on the company network at all.

 

[leavingthesoultrap]

It depends, its likely that nothing will happen. If you get questioned just say, that you clicked on it by accident

 

[jussaloser]

u should be fine, its not like this forum is some dark web secret