For real: here is a little story, I work for a Fortune 500 botnet, I brought my work laptop to a friends house, VPN'd in from their house and now their network is absolutely fried (strange behavior, weird connections, etc)...even after replacing the router. Additionally, I am almost certain my iPhone is bugged, and these strange little saucers appeared on my telephone poles a few months ago. I am almost certain I have been "surveiled", join the club right? But seriously, how can I go about proving they are invading my privacy? How do I expose their malware?
Ask HN: How do I audit my employer for invading my privacy?
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Re: Ask HN: How do I audit my employer for invading my privacy?
#2You have any holes in your computing devices right?
Here's a sure fire way to make sure the malware is removed.
Get some tinfoil roll up lots of tiny balls of tinfoil and poke them in the so called air vents until they fill up. This is how the malware gets in.
Don't be tempted to do a half job and cover up the holes, it has to be small balls of tinfoil. It's the surface area to size ratio that's important - so smaller the better!
If you see any smoke that's the malware being forced out by the electromagnetic fields of the tinfoil balls. This is expected behaviour.
Re: Ask HN: How do I audit my employer for invading my privacy?
#3It is more than likely that you aren't being bugged. The network issue might well be just a misconfigured home router.
You have two possible choices:
- Technological (wireshark/MITM) to look at network traffic
- Sociological (trick your employer into admitting it)
Assuming that you aren't bothered about risking your job, then you could always do something that triggers your employer to act in a way that demonstrates that you are being monitored.
I don't have any great ideas of what you could do, but please make sure it is legal and ideally doesn't break your employment contract!
Re: Ask HN: How do I audit my employer for invading my privacy?
#4>> strange little saucers appeared on my telephone poles a few months ago..
Post a picture
Re: Ask HN: How do I audit my employer for invading my privacy?
#5There's a community dedicated to discussing these sorts of things:
Re: Ask HN: How do I audit my employer for invading my privacy?
#6>> strange little saucers appeared on my telephone poles a few months ago.. Post a picture
Re: Ask HN: How do I audit my employer for invading my privacy?
#7There's a community dedicated to discussing these sorts of things: https://www.reddit.com/r/badBIOS/
Thanks! I posted a new comment about the saucers under this...
Re: Ask HN: How do I audit my employer for invading my privacy?
#8>> strange little saucers appeared on my telephone poles a few months ago.. Post a picture
http://s13.postimg.org/7e04u78cn/IMG_0414.jpg
Isn't that just an insulator?
Here's an easy and safe thing you can do that might make you feel a bit more in control of your thoughts: drive around your town looking at the electrical poles, and notice how many of them have the same discs on top of them. Rationally, your neighbors can't all be targets of surveillance of some random company.
Re: Ask HN: How do I audit my employer for invading my privacy?
#9My concern when I had a work issued laptop was that they would see the network traffic my wife was generating by streaming YouTube videos and playing video games and assume it was me. Fortunately, it seems that was not the case.
I am not one to turn away from a good conspiracy theory, so don't get me wrong. I just think you can see any patterns you want in the random noise of life. It is a strange set of symptoms your friend is experiencing, but why would they destroy your network, hampering you from being able to do work?