A question for techies
 

Say, hypothetically, you're at work, and you download a messenger program (MSN or Yahoo, hypothetically). Say your computer at work is on a network. Can other people somehow find out that you're using this program?

Probably.


[Well, that exhasted my technical knowledge]

if an admin has a packet sniffer installed they can.

Sniff, Sniff. WOW, that was some good shit.

Thank you Glice. Words cannot express my profound sense of enlightenment.

I should expect as much from someone whose lexicon revolves around 'cock.'

Uh oh. What is that, and how do I know if they've got one? Can they read individual messages?

Sadly 'twas always so - my grandiloquence blighted and my prolixiferous rampages, sleighted, by this malignant, festering impropriety named 'cock'.

Actually, I find such a lewd, guttural, debauched idiomatic aberration quite a turn-on.

does that explain yr hover?

Niiiiice.



Sorry, I couldn't resist.

You love the cock?

it's underused--much like, "glory-hole."

Do you really need me to answer that?

Housewife porn has those terms cornered. I rather like "pleasure canyon."

hah hah very funny thread
sorry to bring back the geekness
without packet sniffers your network admin can just see what port numbers you're using. certain ports are associated w/ certain messanger programs-- yahoo for example uses tcp ports 5000 and 5001 (thanks google). your admin could have already blocked those if this was an important issue.

but if not-- you can claim you're using yahoo for "research" or to "contact a source" or whatever bullshit you choose. last month i was working in a school district's office and i had yahoo, i logged to the board & read all kinds of crapola, including a picture of tubgirl, etc (someone put tubgirl on a thread).

curiously tough, they limited the amount of streaming media you could watch during certain hours. so if i was reading the paper & there was a video it wouldn't play.

etc.

I'm not sure it's an issue, really - I'm sort of a one-person office, so it's not as though they have epidemics of internet abuse to correct. It would just be nice to know the risk factor, just in case.

near zero.

Good to know, I'm in the middle of a particurly heated cyber session. I'd hate to break my rhythm.

oh, one thing you need to do is make sure the yahoo is not archiving your messages, else there will be a written record of your online sexual exploits

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oh, and-- can i watch? :D

You mean, that's not you that I'm talking to?