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Has anyone ever gotten in trouble for working on side projects during work hour?

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Re: Has anyone ever gotten in trouble for working on side projects during work hour?

#11

Don't do it. They can find out anything. As if they were watching a live-stream of what you are doing. By law, employers have access to monitor anything and everything that happens on company property. Company property, in the modern sense, includes laptops, company-issues phones, tablets, and the wired and wireless networks. They have every right to in-near-real-time perform surveillance of what you are doing. As fo…

What if you just dont care about the project? You won't expect anything out of it and you don't care if they confiscate it.

Re: Has anyone ever gotten in trouble for working on side projects during work hour?

#12
post #5

I know a guy who got into trouble write a module and putting it in a public repository. The module solved the current task. It was easy to install and had documentation. All good? No. The company claimed he spent extra (meaning unnecessary time) cleaning up the code and making is usable for other companies. Also I think he didn't attribute the company. They claimed full copyright to the module, co-maintainer status a…

Was he a contractor?

Re: Has anyone ever gotten in trouble for working on side projects during work hour?

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post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can they see what you are doing even with dynamic websites or over https? Assuming they can only read network traffic.

Examine DNS lookups, examine URLs, MITM potential to read everything, all sorts of things they could do on just the network level.

None of those can show what you are actually seeing on your page? What if you were using a web based IDE? Or Python Anywhere?

Re: Has anyone ever gotten in trouble for working on side projects during work hour?

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post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Examine DNS lookups, examine URLs, MITM potential to read everything, all sorts of things they could do on just the network level.

None of those can show what you are actually seeing on your page? What if you were using a web based IDE? Or Python Anywhere?

http://www.spector360.com/

Re: Has anyone ever gotten in trouble for working on side projects during work hour?

#16
post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Examine DNS lookups, examine URLs, MITM potential to read everything, all sorts of things they could do on just the network level.

None of those can show what you are actually seeing on your page? What if you were using a web based IDE? Or Python Anywhere?

MITM certainly can see everything, and employers do it: http://it.slashdot.org/story/14/03/05/1724237/ask-slashdot-d...

Re: Has anyone ever gotten in trouble for working on side projects during work hour?

#18

Don't do it. They can find out anything. As if they were watching a live-stream of what you are doing. By law, employers have access to monitor anything and everything that happens on company property. Company property, in the modern sense, includes laptops, company-issues phones, tablets, and the wired and wireless networks. They have every right to in-near-real-time perform surveillance of what you are doing. As fo…

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Re: Has anyone ever gotten in trouble for working on side projects during work hour?

#19
post #10

Oh hell yes. I worked for a transportation company and used to park the van and spend at least 1-2 hours sitting in the van outside hacking away on public wifi. Got caught all the time.

How the heck did you get caught?

just being an idiot - it was a small town so people would drive by and tell on me and stuff.
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