I thought my supervisor was reading my Slack DM’s, but after talking to some people at Slack who assured me thats impossible to do real-time (my messages are being read shortly after being sent) I now realize they’re being read another way. I think it might be a keylogger. Is there a way to tell? I use an iMac & theres nothing physically attached to the machine...but they’re office machines on the office network, and as I understand these types of logging tools are designed to go undetected. I‘ve always suspected our communications were being monitored, but I’m trying to zero in on how. Cuz if it does turn out they’ve been logging every keystroke on my work machine for the past couple years its like 🙃... ...sent from my iPhone X
That’s legal right?
AFAIK, totally legal for a company, on a company machine. In the best interest of the company and may help data loss prevention...At some big enterprise corp I could see this being the foundation of the company security policy lol, but at a small startup it feels creepy & weirdly personal. 🤨
They do this at big companies. I know for a fact that Cisco does this. Usually there’s a very specific process that’s running that tells you there’s a keylogger
Really? I’m an admin of a different org’s chats and I don’t see anything like that. Is this a paid feature? We use Slack’s free plan at the office. I looked into the discoveryAPI and slack’s policies and nothing about reading messages in real time jumped out at me. Good to know.
Yes you can do a social engineering trick (a trap) that will uncover this, you will need a pen with camera recorder pointed to your desk and drawers and send a message that will make the interested party open your drawer like I got the pills you asked for in my drawer but just take one when I am not on my desk. after sending this tell your manager you are sick and you need to leave. come next day and watch if someone opened your drawer.
Can you legally install a camera?
Can you legally install a key logger?
I think you're just paranoid. No one is tracking you...
literally the best case scenario
I've always operated under the assumption that anything happening on my work device is the property of the company who owns the hardware, including any and all communication. But I've also always operated under the assumption that no one is bothering to read shit because no one's got time for that.
My company uses Mattermost (I know) and they absolutely do this.
Which company is this
So what if they are?
At this point it seems likely. I just want to know for sure. I don’t think it’s illegal for an employer to do, tho.
Absolutely not, you probably even signed something saying they can. What I will say is it's unlikely they would waste resources on that