A question for techies

truncated · 04.14.2006, 10:01 AM

Say, hypothetically, you're at work, and you download a messenger program (MSN or Yahoo, hypothetically). Say your computer at work is on a network. Can other people somehow find out that you're using this program?

Glice · 04.14.2006, 10:07 AM

Probably.

[Well, that exhasted my technical knowledge]

chabib · 04.14.2006, 10:08 AM

if an admin has a packet sniffer installed they can.

marleypumpkin · 04.14.2006, 10:09 AM

Sniff, Sniff. WOW, that was some good shit.

truncated · 04.14.2006, 10:10 AM

Thank you Glice. Words cannot express my profound sense of enlightenment.

I should expect as much from someone whose lexicon revolves around 'cock.'

truncated · 04.14.2006, 10:11 AM

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Originally Posted by chabib

if an admin has a packet sniffer installed they can.

Uh oh. What is that, and how do I know if they've got one? Can they read individual messages?

Glice · 04.14.2006, 10:14 AM

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Originally Posted by truncated

Thank you Glice. Words cannot express my profound sense of enlightenment.

I should expect as much from someone whose lexicon revolves around 'cock.'

Sadly 'twas always so - my grandiloquence blighted and my prolixiferous rampages, sleighted, by this malignant, festering impropriety named 'cock'.

truncated · 04.14.2006, 10:23 AM

Actually, I find such a lewd, guttural, debauched idiomatic aberration quite a turn-on.

chabib · 04.14.2006, 10:39 AM

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Originally Posted by truncated

Actually, I find such a lewd, guttural, debauched idiomatic aberration quite a turn-on.

does that explain yr hover?

truncated · 04.14.2006, 10:43 AM

Niiiiice.

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

Glice · 04.14.2006, 10:46 AM

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Originally Posted by truncated

Actually, I find such a lewd, guttural, debauched idiomatic aberration quite a turn-on.

You love the cock?

chabib · 04.14.2006, 10:48 AM

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Originally Posted by truncated

Niiiiice.

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

it's underused--much like, "glory-hole."

truncated · 04.14.2006, 10:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Glice

You love the cock?

Do you really need me to answer that?

truncated · 04.14.2006, 10:59 AM

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Originally Posted by chabib

it's underused--much like, "glory-hole."

Housewife porn has those terms cornered. I rather like "pleasure canyon."

!@#$%! · 04.14.2006, 02:51 PM

hah hah very funny thread
sorry to bring back the geekness
without packet sniffers your network admin can just see what port numbers you're using. certain ports are associated w/ certain messanger programs-- yahoo for example uses tcp ports 5000 and 5001 (thanks google). your admin could have already blocked those if this was an important issue.

but if not-- you can claim you're using yahoo for "research" or to "contact a source" or whatever bullshit you choose. last month i was working in a school district's office and i had yahoo, i logged to the board & read all kinds of crapola, including a picture of tubgirl, etc (someone put tubgirl on a thread).

curiously tough, they limited the amount of streaming media you could watch during certain hours. so if i was reading the paper & there was a video it wouldn't play.

etc.

truncated · 04.14.2006, 03:05 PM

I'm not sure it's an issue, really - I'm sort of a one-person office, so it's not as though they have epidemics of internet abuse to correct. It would just be nice to know the risk factor, just in case.

!@#$%! · 04.14.2006, 03:10 PM

near zero.

truncated · 04.14.2006, 03:12 PM

Good to know, I'm in the middle of a particurly heated cyber session. I'd hate to break my rhythm.

!@#$%! · 04.14.2006, 03:14 PM

oh, one thing you need to do is make sure the yahoo is not archiving your messages, else there will be a written record of your online sexual exploits

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oh, and-- can i watch?

truncated · 04.14.2006, 03:25 PM

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Originally Posted by !@#$%!

oh, one thing you need to do is make sure the yahoo is not archiving your messages, else there will be a written record of your online sexual exploits

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oh, and-- can i watch?

You mean, that's not you that I'm talking to?

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04.14.2006, 10:23 AM	#8
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04.14.2006, 02:51 PM	#15
!@#$%! invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: mars attacks Posts: 42,553	hah hah very funny thread sorry to bring back the geekness without packet sniffers your network admin can just see what port numbers you're using. certain ports are associated w/ certain messanger programs-- yahoo for example uses tcp ports 5000 and 5001 (thanks google). your admin could have already blocked those if this was an important issue. but if not-- you can claim you're using yahoo for "research" or to "contact a source" or whatever bullshit you choose. last month i was working in a school district's office and i had yahoo, i logged to the board & read all kinds of crapola, including a picture of tubgirl, etc (someone put tubgirl on a thread). curiously tough, they limited the amount of streaming media you could watch during certain hours. so if i was reading the paper & there was a video it wouldn't play. etc.
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truncated invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 3,607	I'm not sure it's an issue, really - I'm sort of a one-person office, so it's not as though they have epidemics of internet abuse to correct. It would just be nice to know the risk factor, just in case.
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!@#$%! invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: mars attacks Posts: 42,553	near zero.
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truncated invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 3,607	Good to know, I'm in the middle of a particurly heated cyber session. I'd hate to break my rhythm.
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!@#$%! invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: mars attacks Posts: 42,553	oh, one thing you need to do is make sure the yahoo is not archiving your messages, else there will be a written record of your online sexual exploits -- oh, and-- can i watch?
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