No-ip/ hide ip

dickie1968

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Which is or what do hide isp program do use use. work have started to clamp down on the lads downloading at work on there laptops told them you can hide your isp so the admin cannot or will find it hard to track them down. any help will be in the good off man kind
 
I think you just use their proxy server so it doesn't actually hide an IP, just give theirs instead of yours?
 
Ultimately you can't hide the IP as this has to be sent to the destination server so it knows where the data has to be sent back to.

You can use a proxy server to make the address appear from elsewhere. This takes the request from your PC and passes it through the proxy and before sending the request to the site you originally wanted to visit. But any decent network admin will have blocked the well known proxy servers.

Anyway, I am sure that if you mess with the setting on your company provided equipment it will be a disciplinary offence.
 
cheers for the replys there all the lads own laptops they have started to use real hide ip and it seems to work, because if you set the country to say chile and hit google it comes up with google chile and the page is in Spanish and asks if you want to translate it. will this throw them off the sent for a wee while????? got to find out that they had got a nasty email off paramount pictures saying some bad person was downloading some off there films and it had to stop or the firm would face action. Bad boys the lot off them..lol
 
cheers for the replys there all the lads own laptops they have started to use real hide ip and it seems to work, because if you set the country to say chile and hit google it comes up with google chile and the page is in Spanish and asks if you want to translate it. will this throw them off the sent for a wee while????? got to find out that they had got a nasty email off paramount pictures saying some bad person was downloading some off there films and it had to stop or the firm would face action. Bad boys the lot off them..lol

first I would say that most of these letters are BS and they have no real proof about who has done what. A lot are based on P2P traffic and if your network admin is stupid enough not to be blocking P2P then they are just opening the company up for problems like this.

as for tracking down the offenders, depends on how good your network admin is. Any decent proxy will track internal IP to public IP and what protocol so if they are using a work connection then their IP can be tracked. Now its down to the admin if they keep logs and review them but it really is not that hard. At my place they track usage for nearly 200,000 so its possible regardless of size of company.
 
or the best bet would be is change the wifi access code from the silly one they have which everyone knows to one which only the few need to know. we would still find out because all the managers are our mates as well so would soon spill the beans. But to catch you in the act they would have to stood over you watching you downloading or at least ask to see your laptop which would be hard as there all private and the lads would tell them to eff off. so no win situation.
 
or the best bet would be is change the wifi access code from the silly one they have which everyone knows to one which only the few need to know. we would still find out because all the managers are our mates as well so would soon spill the beans. But to catch you in the act they would have to stood over you watching you downloading or at least ask to see your laptop which would be hard as there all private and the lads would tell them to eff off. so no win situation.

To catch them in the act you set a monitor on the proxy that if anybody uses P2P then send an alert. Then you sack them and tell everyone why they were sacked as an example to everyone, you can keep their names anonymous but I am sure everyone will know who soon enough.

I got to ask why people are even allowed to bring private laptops into the company. The potential for data loss is huge and as I am sure the company owners will have seen in the press the fines and potential prison terms are substantial.
 
there allowed to bring there laptops in because there are No staff on the job that company employ where all contract staff if your a supervisor and above you get a laptop setup to go on the wired network to access drawing/emails etc we all have to email our shift reports in so we need our own laptops to do so. Out off the few hundred that work for this company only max off 5% are employees, the rest are contract staff even the top project managers, this is the face off modern working, p.s. its a big french company
 
there allowed to bring there laptops in because there are No staff on the job that company employ where all contract staff if your a supervisor and above you get a laptop setup to go on the wired network to access drawing/emails etc we all have to email our shift reports in so we need our own laptops to do so. Out off the few hundred that work for this company only max off 5% are employees, the rest are contract staff even the top project managers, this is the face off modern working, p.s. its a big french company

As I was saying, its down to your network admins and management to decide how much risk they want to put the company under.
 
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