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Title: Need help from getbig computer experts
Post by: Mclovin on January 14, 2015, 06:54:43 AM
Ok, so I need help from someone who knows about this kind of stuff. I was on my work phone and went to a forum that had a link to a porn site on it. Now obviously I didn't click on it and normally wouldn't think twice about it....but I was just reading an article about how a lot of browsers will now preload or prefetch links that they think you may click on next...I guess in order to speed up the page load.  Anyway, I know my company can monitor the sites I visit on the phone so now I'm paranoid that that porn site will show up in the access logs. I knew someone who got fired for looking at porn on their work phone so I've kinda got OCD about it. I was using the standard Android browser if that helps. So am I f*cked or am I ok?
Title: Re: Need help from getbig computer experts
Post by: OneMoreRep on January 14, 2015, 06:57:37 AM
I was on my work phone and went to a forum that had a link to a porn site on it. Now obviously I didn't click on it and normally wouldn't think twice about it....Anyway, I know my company can monitor the sites I visit on the phone so now I'm paranoid that that porn site will show up in the access logs.

As long as you didn't click on the link, you're fine. Just because a link sits within a forum does not mean that your browser will register as having visited said link. You didn't click on it, so it shouldn't show up in the access logs.

Even if you would have clicked on the link, you could argue that you did not know what was at the other end once clicked.

"1"
Title: Re: Need help from getbig computer experts
Post by: Powerlift66 on January 14, 2015, 07:03:38 AM
Like 1MR said, you should be fine...
Title: Re: Need help from getbig computer experts
Post by: Army of One on January 14, 2015, 07:04:08 AM
You are fine, everybody would be getting sacked if you worst fears were reality.
Title: Re: Need help from getbig computer experts
Post by: Tapeworm on January 14, 2015, 07:09:58 AM
"My finger slipped." 

Bosses. Women.  Friends of the woman.  Highway patrolmen who somehow became unzipped.  A phrase for all seasons.
Title: Re: Need help from getbig computer experts
Post by: Grape Ape on January 14, 2015, 07:16:15 AM
It's been my experience that nobody monitors access logs in a company of any size.  They don't have the bandwith.
Title: Re: Need help from getbig computer experts
Post by: Mclovin on January 14, 2015, 08:11:22 AM
As long as you didn't click on the link, you're fine. Just because a link sits within a forum does not mean that your browser will register as having visited said link. You didn't click on it, so it shouldn't show up in the access logs.

Even if you would have clicked on the link, you could argue that you did not know what was at the other end once clicked.

"1"

OK thanks. So do you know what they're talking about when they refer to browsers prefetching data?
Title: Re: Need help from getbig computer experts
Post by: SF1900 on January 14, 2015, 08:24:10 AM
Title: Re: Need help from getbig computer experts
Post by: 20inch calves on January 14, 2015, 08:42:50 AM
It's been my experience that nobody monitors access logs in a company of any size.  They don't have the bandwith.

Yeah I would agree.. U shouldn't worry. But I would stay off those sites from now on