finding records in my computer

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Thank you that make sense. I have changed my email immediately after I found
out. It just tos consequence, I got fired on the 12th. I have a copy of the
Account Usage Report that shows time, date and how long that I've been on the
internet. I have never leave my computer on for 24 hours a day. According
to the report, it showed that I left my computer on for 6 days, started on
the 6/08 to 6/13. I was fired on the 12th. The Account Usage Report show
that I used my internet everyday except from 8th to 12th. I'm in the process
of going back to the hearing and I need to explain to the judge that the
information that he gotten was from my webmail and it wasn't from a friend of
mine, it was from my sister.
The boss stated that he got information about some comments that I've made
to a friend of mine which it was none of his business anyway. That
information was between me and her and we were emailing each other from home.
I told my friend who still works there about this and she immediately
contact her internet provider to change her password, too. They got
something on her too and she had been warned.
Lauria
 
You're welcome, and good luck.

John


Lauria said:
Thank you that make sense. I have changed my email immediately after I
found
out. It just tos consequence, I got fired on the 12th. I have a copy of
the
Account Usage Report that shows time, date and how long that I've been on
the
internet. I have never leave my computer on for 24 hours a day.
According
to the report, it showed that I left my computer on for 6 days, started on
the 6/08 to 6/13. I was fired on the 12th. The Account Usage Report show
that I used my internet everyday except from 8th to 12th. I'm in the
process
of going back to the hearing and I need to explain to the judge that the
information that he gotten was from my webmail and it wasn't from a friend
of
mine, it was from my sister.
The boss stated that he got information about some comments that I've made
to a friend of mine which it was none of his business anyway. That
information was between me and her and we were emailing each other from
home.
I told my friend who still works there about this and she immediately
contact her internet provider to change her password, too. They got
something on her too and she had been warned.
Lauria
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The point that everyone seems to be missing here is that with Yahoo (for
example) you use the browser to read your email, and if your browser has
saved your email password on the computer at work then it may well fill
the password in automatically when the user name is typed in.

As for the time logged in do you mean they got this information from
their own auditing system or from the web mail servers? If the latter it
is probably meaningless, because many websites will not sign you out
unless you sign out deliberately, for example Yahoo signs you out after
a couple of weeks if you don't use it, but just exiting the browser or
turning off the machine does not.

The thing is that your employer is entitled to monitor ALL traffic on
the company network, and he doesn't have to have your password and read
your email from the webmail website, when you send or receive ANYTHING
via their network they CAN capture it.
 
Even if I use a different type of email? My internet provider is set up
through my phone service. They have webmail but it doesn't stay login like
Yahoo.
Lauria
 
When you access that email using Firefox or Internet Explorer for the
first time with any computer FF or IE may ask you if you want to save
the password. Unless it's your own computer at home you should probably
say no, or use "Never save passwords". If you say yes the browser can
remember that password.

After login if you close the browser or turn off the computer the
website does not know you are gone for a while. It may have a timeout
(Like Banks and other places do) but ene then it may be possible for
someone to come along 5 minutes after you are gone and get right in
again as you.

The only computer that could detail "All" the times your user ID was
signed in and where from is the mail provider's server, but to have any
kind of legal standing any evidence you get from them will have to be
backed by one of their IT specialists and even then if it shows a work
IP logged in while you were not there it may not reveal what was done,
it certainly cannot tell who was at the keyboard. It does not "Prove"
you were not there. You need other evidence (an "Alibi" for that.

I think, (and I am certainly not a lawyer) that a judge would see it
this way.

You don't dispute that some email you wrote offended your employer,
instead you are trying to show that he did not have permission to view
it. If it was something like "My boss has been a jackass all day" then
he needs to grow up, if it is something likely to "Damage" the company
or is otherwise libelous then it is liable to go against you.
Disgruntled employees can be very damaging.
 
I can see your point but I did not go into my webmail on Saturday night and
leave it open for 6 days. Even if I did use the webmail at work, it will
automatically close the webmail after 5 minutes with out using like if I was
open a bank account. I don't work weekend.
Lauria
 
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