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Re: how to check if someone is blocking me or watching me?
From: Paul Robertson <proberts () patriot net>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 19:01:53 -0400 (EDT)
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 ngunness () canada com wrote:
Is it ture that i can find out if someone is blocking me and tracking me? Norman
Not always, it depends on who's doing it, where they're doing it from and what methods they're using. If it's work, and they own the network/firewall, then you'll likely never know unless they're willing to tell you (and businesses *should* let people know they're subject to monitoring.) If it's someone who's installed a trojan on your system, then unless you can detect the trojan, or have a seperate method of monitoring the traffic your machine emits, then you're likely to not find out. If it's a third party, then it really depends on what they have access to and how they decide to track you. None of the folks I've tracked during incidents have known they were being tracked until it was time for lawyers or law enforcement to get involved, but if a handful of them had known where to look, they might have figured out someone was looking for them (though probably not who exactly.) Back when I actively ran firewalls for a large corportion, users weren't specifically aware of tracking due to an investigation once inappropriate usage had been established as a probability. If you're doing something "wrong" from a network, the obvious answer is not to do it. If it's privacy, not legality or appropriateness, then do it from a machine you own and a connection you pay for. Paul ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Robertson "My statements in this message are personal opinions proberts () patriot net which may have no basis whatsoever in fact." probertson () trusecure com Director of Risk Assessment TruSecure Corporation _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () honor icsalabs com http://honor.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
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- how to check if someone is blocking me or watching me? ngunness (Sep 18)
- Re: how to check if someone is blocking me or watching me? Paul Robertson (Sep 18)
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- Re: how to check if someone is blocking me or watching me? Mike Hoskins (Sep 19)