Show HN: Your Social Media Fingerprint (maybe NSFW)

Re:Show HN: Your Social Media Fingerprint (maybe NSFW) by derefr on Thursday October 13, 2016 @12:56AM (#12698527)

Personally, the idea that there's a network my traffic flows over, where that traffic is sniffed such that its content could potentially result in things like me losing my job, is just debilitating to me.

If I worked for such a company, all my traffic would be flowing over a VPN, full-stop.

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Re:Show HN: Your Social Media Fingerprint (maybe NSFW) by draugadrotten on Thursday October 13, 2016 @04:21AM (#12699278)

> If I worked for such a company, all my traffic would be flowing over a VPN, full-stop.

When you work for such a company, all VPNs are blocked and prohibited, full-stop.

Source: worked for such a company

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Re:Show HN: Your Social Media Fingerprint (maybe NSFW) by oarsinsync on Thursday October 13, 2016 @07:52AM (#12700046)

Pretty standard in any reasonably secure financial services org.

All direct Internet access is blocked and prohibited, with all attempts to access the Internet (tcp/80, tcp/443) transparently proxied via Bluecoat/Websense/Forcepoint/etc proxies, which filter based on URL categorisation. WSS generally doesn't work in this kind of environment. Everything else is dropped.

Any attempts to bypass filtering is a violation of IT policy and is sackable. Visiting sites that are blocked gets logged, doesn't generally get flagged up unless is a daily occurrence, and the first assumption is usually malware.

Source: Worked for several such companies, was responsible for perimeter security in some.

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