Text messages privacy ruling expected from Supreme Court

[DaSleeper]

Yes, it's part of the iCloud feature I believe. And all my really personal info are on an app with a password.

You must mean Memo Lite....I use it's password feature for sensitive documents and passwords etc.
BTW Re my previous post.....My daughter had come from Toronto for a visit last year and brought her work notebook because of some work that was unfinished ,,, so to log on to her work she had to use some program ?? to do it I forget the name....
So after she finished her work she logged out and tried to go directly on the internet to check her email but couldn't do it so with my proclivity for attacking problems I told her to try logging on to her work again and from there check her email....something like using her work server as a proxy...... (And it worked)....
When she asked me how come ...I told her that it's probably because they want to monitor everything going in or out because sensitive info could be sold to competition???
She never got back to me on that.......any Ideas?????

 

[SLM]

You must mean Memo Lite....I use it's password feature for sensitive documents and passwords etc.
BTW Re my previous post.....My daughter had come from Toronto for a visit last year and brought her work notebook because of some work that was unfinished ,,, so to log on to her work she had to use some program ?? to do it I forget the name....
So after she finished her work she logged out and tried to go directly on the internet to check her email but couldn't do it so with my proclivity for attacking problems I told her to try logging on to her work again and from there check her email....something like using her work server as a proxy...... (And it worked)....
When she asked me how come ...I told her that it's probably because they want to monitor everything going in or out because sensitive info could be sold to competition???
She never got back to me on that.......any Ideas?????

That seems likely, possibly because she's accessing work email from a different location than usual? Could be a security feature although I would have thought they'd just prompt her with a security question. Remote accessing into the office, if it's the one I'm thinking of it's like a 'ghost program', she'd be accessing the work computer itself via the laptop. So checking email that way would be the same as sitting at the office computer and reading your email.

 

[DaSleeper]

That seems likely, possibly because she's accessing work email from a different location than usual? Could be a security feature although I would have thought they'd just prompt her with a security question. Remote accessing into the office, if it's the one I'm thinking of it's like a 'ghost program', she'd be accessing the work computer itself via the laptop. So checking email that way would be the same as sitting at the office computer and reading your email.

It was her personal Hotmail account...afterwards she just used my PC while she was here because it was way too much trouble using her work server.......... and the name of that program escapes me but I recall looking it up on the net and it's a high end security program...actually Its the same one Northern telephone uses for protecting emails on their server.

 

[SLM]

It was her personal Hotmail account...afterwards she just used my PC while she was here because it was way too much trouble using her work server.......... and the name of that program escapes me but I recall looking it up on the net and it's a high end security program...actually Its the same one Northern telephone uses for protecting emails on their server.

Just her hotmail? That's weird! I've never had an issue logging into my hotmail from any computer, from any internet address ever. Was the laptop a work computer? Perhaps they have something on it to prevent accessing certain sites? Although I've never heard of a problem accessing hotmail before.

The only program I have any kind of familiarity with is one that one of our client's uses. They have a bookkeeper that accesses their database from offsite, and we've logged on on a few occasions as well to their office server. You need the program at both ends I think.

 

[DaSleeper]

Just her hotmail? That's weird! I've never had an issue logging into my hotmail from any computer, from any internet address ever. Was the laptop a work computer? Perhaps they have something on it to prevent accessing certain sites? Although I've never heard of a problem accessing hotmail before.

The only program I have any kind of familiarity with is one that one of our client's uses. They have a bookkeeper that accesses their database from offsite, and we've logged on on a few occasions as well to their office server. You need the program at both ends I think.

I thought I had made it clear, but English being my second language..........It was a work computer and at work she can access her Hotmail at work and I sometimes send her emails on her Hotmail account but if there is an attachment....I once sent her a little utility program on her Hotmail account and she couldn't get that piece of mail until she got home....that letter was blocked by security.
I guessed (Correctly) at the time that the only way she could surf was through her work server...in fact it seemed to become a "necessary " proxy surfer.
There might have been a "work around" but I didn't want to mess around with her work computer.....any changes made on those PC's needs admin privileges....
Like you....a few years ago....a program was put on her home computer (dunno how) Edit: I think she had a memory stick with the program on it.......:.... so she could sometimes finish work at home that she needed for the next day, but now it's different, she is provided with a company laptop.....

 

[PoliticalNick]

To do work from home my GF has a fob on her keychain. She presses a button and it gives her a code. She has to enter that into her login and she gets routed through a proxy onto her corporate network. Anything she does while on that server is monitored and restricted by head office but they can't see into her personal laptop. It is quite a good system, she can work anywhere she gets internet.

 

[SLM]

I thought I had made it clear, but English being my second language..........It was a work computer and at work she can access her Hotmail at work and I sometimes send her emails on her Hotmail account but if there is an attachment....I once sent her a little utility program on her Hotmail account and she couldn't get that piece of mail until she got home....that letter was blocked by security.
I guessed (Correctly) at the time that the only way she could surf was through her work server...in fact it seemed to become a "necessary " proxy surfer.
There might have been a "work around" but I didn't want to mess around with her work computer.....any changes made on those PC's needs admin privileges....
Like you....a few years ago....a program was put on her home computer (dunno how) Edit: I think she had a memory stick with the program on it.......:.... so she could sometimes finish work at home that she needed for the next day, but now it's different, she is provided with a company laptop.....

Well that makes some sense then, if it's a work laptop they may restrict what she can do with it. I had misunderstood that it was her laptop and she was linking into the work server to do the work, then couldn't access the hotmail. If it's a work laptop I can see why they would place heavy restrictions on it. Just think about what people do on their computers, questionable websites, accessing porn sites, even social subversion websites and blogs. If an employee had free access to all of that on a company comuter, I can see that being a problem. Not that I'm suggesting she'd do any of that, lol, but they have to plan for the worst case scenario.