Firewall activity

Is it possible for a company to read private web based emails going through
their firewall to access the web ?

Camelion

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Camelion wrote:
> Is it possible for a company to read private web based emails going
> through their firewall to access the web ?

If it's encrypted, no, not by monitoring network activity. They could still
do it by monitoring your computer's activities though obviously.

If the communication between you and the webserver in question isn't
encrypted, they can log it centrally if they want to (though likelyhood is
small they'd bother unless you're doing something iffy and they have reason
to suspect it). If your company has a web proxy (most do) it could also be
cached there.


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Frode

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Frode

"Frode" <> wrote in message
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> Camelion wrote:
> > Is it possible for a company to read private web based emails going
> > through their firewall to access the web ?
>
> If it's encrypted, no, not by monitoring network activity. They could
still
> do it by monitoring your computer's activities though obviously.
>
> If the communication between you and the webserver in question isn't
> encrypted, they can log it centrally if they want to (though likelyhood is
> small they'd bother unless you're doing something iffy and they have
reason
> to suspect it). If your company has a web proxy (most do) it could also be
> cached there.
>
>
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> Frode
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How could you encrypt messages posted to a web based email service say
hotmail ?

Camelion

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Camelion wrote:
> How could you encrypt messages posted to a web based email service say
> hotmail ?

As far as I know, you can't. Hotmail uses SSL encryption for the login
procedure to protect your password from being sniffed, but it doesn't use
encryption once you're actually logged in as far as I know.

If you want a 100% secure email service you might wanna have a look at
something like www.husmail.com

It uses encryption at all stages of usage until the mail leaves their
servers (you can also encrypt the actual mail but from what you've said so
far that doesn't seem to be the need), thus you'd be protected from anybody
on your local network sniffing the traffic.


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Frode

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Frode

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Frode wrote:
> If you want a 100% secure email service you might wanna have a look at
> something like www.husmail.com

Just noticed the typo. That should've been hushmail


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Frode

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Frode