Network Admin people - Am I Invisible?

[mjr]

You wouldn't be able to use a VPN on our network, they are blocked unless there are valid reasons to have them, and they are tightly controlled.

How quaint! Someone who still thinks you can distinguish VPN traffic from web traffic.

It's slower than molasses in an Alaskan January and looks like a lot of requests to very few HTTPS websites, but no common network monitoring will catch it.

Spotting the "wrong" OS running on an IP address is a much easier task.

 

[KneesUp]

How quaint! Someone who still thinks you can distinguish VPN traffic from web traffic.

It's slower than molasses in an Alaskan January and looks like a lot of requests to very few HTTPS websites, but no common network monitoring will catch it.

Spotting the "wrong" OS running on an IP address is a much easier task.

But if it's not got a static IP and the MAC is falsified, what else will flag it?

(I'm interested in this from a puzzle-solving perspective btw - as I've said I assume everything I do is recorded somewhere by someone, but as I'm self employed my employer is fine with my use if IT)

 

[mjr]

So glad I was at university in the 1990s when students had real internet access and you could actually learn stuff, not this modern sanitized firewalled NATted no-user-servicable-parts heavily surveilled toytown internet that seems to be de rigeur nowadays. What happened to fun?

The priesthood reasserted control. It's easier for the priests to bolt access down so tight that people use their own machines on their own mobile data connections that someone else has to monitor. Then just respond to all the porn trading networks and shoot like that with footholds on campus by saying "how could we know? They're using their mobile networks" and offer to jam mobile signals, which no dean or chancellor with a phone will allow. Strategic devilment.

 

[mjr]

But if it's not got a static IP and the MAC is falsified, what else will flag it?

The MAC not being an approved device and it never being online at the same times as a certain approved device. I'd expect any BYO devices to be on their own subnet, restricted and monitored more closely.

 

[classic33]

The priesthood reasserted control. It's easier for the priests to bolt access down so tight that people use their own machines on their own mobile data connections that someone else has to monitor. Then just respond to all the porn trading networks and shoot like that with footholds on campus as saying "how could we know? They're using their mobile networks" and offer to jam mobile signals, which no dean or chancellor with a phone will allow. Strategic devilment.

Seems to be a fair bit of knowledge on hiding your activities on porn sites being posted.

 

[r04DiE]

I see a lot of negative stuff on here like I have committed the crime of the century. It was an old PC that I wanted to use to set up a lightweight USB based OS with a media centre to use on holiday. Then I realised that I could install my VPN on it and I thought I'd give it a go. Then I wondered how visible I'd be if I wanted to do something naughty.

Please note *I did not do anything naughty*

The whole thing was up on the network for about 30 mins for installing Filezilla and KODI. The PC was then disconnected and is on the floor, waiting to go into recycle.

No harm done, I think.

EDIT: Please carry on as this is all very interesting and I am learning stuff here!

 

[r04DiE]

I missed that you work there, I thought you were a student.

You should be sacked, but at the very least a written warning.

Gee, thanks!

 

[Dan B]

The MAC not being an approved device and it never being online at the same times as a certain approved device. I'd expect any BYO devices to be on their own subnet, restricted and monitored more closely.

If the PC was obsolete and about to go in the trash anyway, I doubt anyone would really notice if it wasn't on the network much

 

[r04DiE]

I love the way people worry so much about legitimate authorities seeing what they are doing, which is always "not naughty", and yet so little about illegitimate actors seeing what they are doing.

I don't get what you mean here ^.

Free, you mean like my post and the other posts here calling this for what it is?

Or free like the Computer Misuse Act?
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/18/contents

You see, there are two kinds of people in this world. People who can abide by rules, and people who can't. The latter have all sorts of excuses and self-justifications, and encourage others to break the rules and break the law, but it isn't some high minded ideal, it isn't some righteous rebellion, it isn't even some creative necessity.

Sorry, but I haven't made any excuses or encouraged anybody else to break the rules or the law. Suck that up.

 

[Dan B]

You see, there are two kinds of people in this world.

Those that generalise from their own circumstances/experiences, and those who try not to