SueAnne443
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is there a keystroke tracker employers could use to know what employees are typing online?
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Yes. But they can only use it on their equipment. They can't put one on your home computer without getting in all kinds of trouble if they are caught. (At least in the U.S. this is true.)
They can monitor your activity on their equipment. If they have given you a laptop, they can install the logger to monitor you. You have probably signed a security agreement or some such thing that tells you they can if they want to.
They can also monitor you desktop at work. If they use a proxy server, they can log where on the internet you go from their network.
They cannot monitor you home computer.
They can monitor your activity on their equipment. If they have given you a laptop, they can install the logger to monitor you. You have probably signed a security agreement or some such thing that tells you they can if they want to.
They can also monitor you desktop at work. If they use a proxy server, they can log where on the internet you go from their network.
They cannot monitor you home computer.
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That's a keystroke RECORDER.
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freelance sites often use a special app that you have to be logged into. This app takes screenshots of your desktop at random intervals, and thus the employer can check what you have been doing while logged in. The employee can pause it at any time, but his "time" he spend working will only count when unpaused.
for example upwork uses such a feature. If you want to protect yourself, maybe you should consider working through freelance sites?
The thing with keystrokes is - you can't reliably detect that he's doing something meaningful. Even if he's typing all day long, how will you detect that he's not playing games, or not writing his own thing, while slacking on yours? You can't, with a keystroke tracker. With random screenshots you can.
for example upwork uses such a feature. If you want to protect yourself, maybe you should consider working through freelance sites?
The thing with keystrokes is - you can't reliably detect that he's doing something meaningful. Even if he's typing all day long, how will you detect that he's not playing games, or not writing his own thing, while slacking on yours? You can't, with a keystroke tracker. With random screenshots you can.
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Well if all the keystrokes are w,a,s,d with the occasional right mouse button and mouse movements, yeah, their playing games. 
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If you are accessing your work server from home, your employer can see your online activities.
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Pros, really? None I know play anything but wasd, but hey, whatever floats your boat.
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OK, let me clarify.
WASD - shooters (although ESDF happens here too)
ESDF - everything else, like MMO, where you need a lot of shortcuts available.
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Hmmm...but if you shift wasd to esdf you now have shift f to g and g to h and it's now a long reach to q and z and x. So why move them all around with all the shooter games using wasd, etc.
As for MMO, don't play those.
Now tell me how you get paid to play any game? I could use some extra cash once in awhile.
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pleasuring themselves with their hand movements - Well?
Don't worry about it, you can't afford it.
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Several very good reasons exist to not misbehave on your work computer. Keylogging is just one. More basic, your employer (your isp too) know what sites you visit. That's routine, so you could easily have to answer uncomfortable questions if you visit Lit at work.
Keyloggers, or just looking at your screen remotely are possible too. Not as many places will do that, but they could, and some do.
Then add the risk of your computer being the one to cause malware to enter your company if you go to a hacked site.
It's easier (but less fun) to just not do it on your work computer.
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Get an Android tablet and the LIT app. Load 11 stories at a time into the app. Read offline. Nobody knows.
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The simple answer is YES.
They come in several varieties, software and hardware.
Hardware can be something as inconspicuous as a little dongle, or connector, plugged inline between the keyboard and the CPU or plugged into an unused USB port.
In a network environment, employers can employee both hardware and software to monitor just about everything you do so you should never assume that anything you do is "private" or that you are entitled to any "reasonable assumption of privacy." Many employment contracts or employee IT agreements will explicitly state such.
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Actually, what you do at is not private...ever. Most companies employ a proxy server. They use it for several reasons. One to strip any company information from outgoing internet requests. Second to see where employees go on the internet. Plus several other innocuous reasons...collecting data on network performance and such. So most companies know what you do and where you go on the internet.
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thank you
I appreciate the comments and the on topic private messages
I appreciate the comments and the on topic private messages
Vpn
In general its never safe, and indeed a very quick way to get fired watching porn or going to sex chat sites.
The only way you can safely play at work it to have a Virtual Private Network of your own. Most employers will not let install your own software.
Do not use the company WiFi, even the public, unsecured WiFi without a VPN and then be careful. Some programs will get out ahead of the VPN re connection and then what you are doing is visible. Your IT department can figure out who is an employee and who is not based on traffic and which WiFi antenna's you access.
Take care,
In general its never safe, and indeed a very quick way to get fired watching porn or going to sex chat sites.
The only way you can safely play at work it to have a Virtual Private Network of your own. Most employers will not let install your own software.
Do not use the company WiFi, even the public, unsecured WiFi without a VPN and then be careful. Some programs will get out ahead of the VPN re connection and then what you are doing is visible. Your IT department can figure out who is an employee and who is not based on traffic and which WiFi antenna's you access.
Take care,
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VPN is useful for protection against "man in the middle" attacks (e.g. dodgy hotel internet connection) but it won't do you much good against a keystroke logger.
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Or any spyware on your company computer.
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Would be so great for someone's boss to make a Lit account to fire a misbehaving employee.
What about Sandboxie as an answer to spyware and keyloggers? I'm thinking no.
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You're right, no. Sandboxie will not protect you from the spyware, which is what keyloggers are, on the computer.
