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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Any tekkies here?
So the other day I was at my friend's house with a few mates just chilling, using her WiFi as you do. I was on fab, but using incognito to not somehow have it show up on her WiFi.
Anyway, I've since heard that incognito doesn't stop the wi-fi owner checking every website visited via the router, if they so wished. Is this true?
Now I very much doubt my friend has the technical ability to do this, but it occurrs to me that I've used lots of wi-fi's to check fab over the years, assuming that it was hidden due to incognito mode, including my parents' - eek!
Does anyone know how secure this is? Is it actually hidden? If not, I'll be a bit more careful in future!
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And on a public network, the amount of traffic generated would more than likely impossible to find unless they had a specific reason to look at your traffic |
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"And on a public network, the amount of traffic generated would more than likely impossible to find unless they had a specific reason to look at your traffic"
I was thinking more specifically about private ones, particularly my dad's as he works in IT so I'm wondering if he could see the sites I've visited when I stay at his, by searching on his router somehow? I really don't want him seeing what I view |
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"And on a public network, the amount of traffic generated would more than likely impossible to find unless they had a specific reason to look at your traffic
I was thinking more specifically about private ones, particularly my dad's as he works in IT so I'm wondering if he could see the sites I've visited when I stay at his, by searching on his router somehow? I really don't want him seeing what I view "
If it’s a standard home router, it’s extremely unlikely to have that sort of logging ability! Usually would require additional hardware |
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Yes it's possible. Academic sites do it all the time, it's how they can monitor communications from anything connected to their WiFi. You can get around it with a VPN though, as it encrypts all the traffic from your device.
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"Yes it's possible. Academic sites do it all the time, it's how they can monitor communications from anything connected to their WiFi. You can get around it with a VPN though, as it encrypts all the traffic from your device.
LvM"
If only i knew what that was |
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"Yes it's possible. Academic sites do it all the time, it's how they can monitor communications from anything connected to their WiFi. You can get around it with a VPN though, as it encrypts all the traffic from your device.
LvM
If only i knew what that was "
It's a website or a phone app that runs in the background and encrypts everything you search online. There are some free ones you can download but they usually have a time limit per day |
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"Unless they have a very advanced home network it’s unlikely they are keeping traffic logs. A work network would be a different ball game"
I know someone who does this. They can check what sites people have been on when they use his wifi. |
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"Yes it's possible. Academic sites do it all the time, it's how they can monitor communications from anything connected to their WiFi. You can get around it with a VPN though, as it encrypts all the traffic from your device.
LvM
If only i knew what that was "
They're apps or programs you run on your phone/ computer. They just run in the background and the idea is they encrypt any data that comes in to or goes out of your device.
There's some free ones that have a daily data limit, and the better ones are paid apps. I've been using one for years just because
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If you’ve got an iPhone .. the latest update iOS 15 was a major security overhaul. You can actually turn on a function whereby you are connecting to a site via 3rd party - what do they call it - IP address. So it’s not traceable to you via your data of wifi provider. |
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"Unless they have a very advanced home network it’s unlikely they are keeping traffic logs. A work network would be a different ball game
I know someone who does this. They can check what sites people have been on when they use his wifi. "
Oh no doubt! I’d imagine it is quite rare but certainly possible |
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