Comments for When I delete private email at work, can it still be found?

Comment from Richard Farrugia on 2009-01-20

2009-01-20T20:22:06Z

Very informative. Just what i have been going through when i was at work. Very good work pleeese keep it up.Honesty is always the best policy in respect to your Boss of course.
Richard

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Comment from Steve Burgess on 2009-01-20

2009-01-20T20:18:46Z

Hi Leo,
I've made my living at computer forensics for a decade and a half now. Things always change, but for the moment, here's how I see it. In the US, mostly, anything you do on the company's computer, especially on the company's time, is likely to be something the company is allowed to look at and keep. It's not easy to completely remove email from a local computer (deleting doesn't do it), and data we've found on such computers has been essential in deciding the outcome of dozens of cases I've worked on. Webmail doesn't leave much on the local computer, but as you mentioned, a man in the middle might still be recording this. Outlook is encrypted, but backups may be stored on the company's servers, and Outlook files can be hacked to bring back deleted email. Most other email programs are text-based and leave lots of data laying around. I'd say a rule of thumb is that email at work is nonsecure, and your employer may even have a responsibility for filtering and keeping some of it. There's a video article discussing different types of email here. Hope it's helpful!

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Comment from Rahul Mehta on 2009-01-18

2009-01-18T11:20:27Z

A sure method would be to use your own laptop (or a portable email capable device) and your own wireless broadband connection. Since it doesn't use company's resources, IT can not tap it. However it still can be against companies policy unless you are doing it in your own time.

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Comment from Ziggie on 2009-01-17

2009-01-17T23:59:02Z

one method that makes it extremely difficult for company IT departments is to connect to an SSH session on your home network, then tunnel through it using a Remote Terminal client (RDP, VNC, etc). Then, everything you do is on a remote computer (yours) using your home internet connection.

About the only way your company IT gurus will know what you're doing are regular screenshots of your workstation, which they are capable of doing, but tend not to due to storage requirements. however, this is becoming less and less of a deterrent..

--zig

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