On Tue, 03 Oct 2006 05:41:02 +0000, lisa harkema wrote:

> Does work vpn compromise home privacy & security?
>
> I work for a snooping kind of company where I would not put it past them
> to watch what I do on my personal home computer if they could.
>
> Can they "see" what I do on my home laptop when I vpn from home on my work
> laptop?
>
> Often I am asked by my manager to use Nortel VPN to connect to the work
> network using my home ISP on my work-owned portable Windows XP laptop. At
> the same time, I am on my home WinXP PC connecting through the same
> Linksys wireless router.
>
> I'm pretty sure when I do not VPN in from the work computer, they can't
> "see" what I do on the home computer ..... but when I vpn in on the work
> computer on the same network as the home computer .. .... can they "see"
> what I do on the home computer?
>
> Does VPN compromise my home security or is my home PC activity still
> secure?

It's not the VPN - that's the tunnel between systems. It's what is
installed and running on the works laptop including any works modified
VPN software. Personally I wouldn't allow it. The whole friggin world
wants to get in your computer worse than a teenage boy wants to get in
your daughters pants.