I use a mac 10.3 wireless-equipped laptop, with a cisco VPN client to log into my workplace Exchange server and see my email over Entourage.
My home internet connection is set up by a router that then sends the signal from the DSL modem to my Airport.
Generally to try to keep work and personal pursuits separate, I have one "user" for work and one "user" for home. In my work user I activate the VPN client, check email, respond, and then shut down the VPN.
Yesterday I made the mistake of turning on the VPN client, checking email and then switching users without shutting down the VPN client.I browsed some websites I would just assume my workplace didn't know about.
When I returned to work stuff I realized the vpn client had been on "all along".
I dont know a lot abput VPN clients, but by checking the statistics tab I determined that "local LAN" was disabled, suggesting that all internet traffic might have been channelled through the workplace server. Is that likely?
Does the fact that I was online from a different "user" interface on the same machine alter that?
How likely is it that my workplace would have monitored the websites I checked???
Yikes!
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