I had an engineer about my router to sort out my issue and he noticed that I gamed a lot during the past few days. (I rarely do but got a cool game so I did a bit lately). I just wonder how? Well I did download a game last night and last month. I am wondering, did he see just my download history (which is fine) or my internet history? I hope he didn’t as it’s just embarrassing :( I went on dating sites before I found a girlfriend and I’d rather him not see that also on top of that I brought my GF a sort of erotic lingerie. I’m so embarrassed. Is it possible for engineer to see what I search?
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I know this doesn’t answer your question, but… Friend… I don’t know how old you are but I believe this is a valuable lesson at any age.
Take a deep breath, and relax. The stranger doesn’t give a shit about what you do or who you are. You will never meet them again, why would you be embarrassed about them learning something (admittedly pretty tame) about you?
Prudence is both allowed and intelligent, don’t walk around the office telling people every detail of your sex life… but I PROMISE, no one gives a crap. There’s no reason to be this sensitive about people learning something about you.
I can’t make any guesses, but you have no reason to feel this guilty about what you do with your time unless you are literally committing crimes. Just, try not to worry about it so much, it will probably make you feel heaps better, haha.
Also, even if the Field Tech that came out to look at your shit can’t see it, your ISP can, and whomever you or your ISP use as a DNS server, or the VPN company you use.
That’s so true. It’s just embarrassment really as it’s like giving privite life away to someone you don’t even know
They can definitely see where traffic goes. If you are not using their DNS however, and you are using DoH they don’t see which URL you are using, but they do see the IP traffic for very obvious reasons.
If the site is using TLS, they can’t see the URL, only the domain name. Get your “fun stuff” from a general purpose site like reddit or pinterest and your internet provider won’t know.
Probably just saw the download data. He probably wouldn’t even care any way. Plus you won’t see him again.
Look I’m an independent enginner doing remote or on site support. I see all sorts in people’s history etc. Do I care No. Let’s face it everyone pees poos and screws.
Ain’t no shame we’re all the same.
Used to work independent repair and we’d fairly regularly get people going “uhhh just don’t look at XYZ 👀😰” haha. Can confirm none of us care. It’s part of the job. Pointing it out will just make us look to see if it’s something funny or not. OP’s lucky it was just his DNS history heh.
use zerotier opnsense and dns over tls. and zenarmour for ad blocking
Does the router log show your search terms? In modern search engines, no.
Does the router log show the domain names you’ve visited? Yes.
the “man” sees everything… pay no attention to that drone hovering outside your window…
Go in your windows computer and type in ‘netstat’. Every router on the traceroute can see the connections.
Found the Indian tech support scammer :p
I’m not wrong.
Netstat shows locally established/awaiting connections to the LAN and WAN. Traceroute is a completely different utility that shows a path traffic takes to get out to a specific address. You are wrong.
The one thing that almost makes sense in your incoherent comment is that the gateway device (typically an isp supplied modem/router) identified from a tracert command is that which an engineer could potentially observe internal clients’ traffic on.
Yes ! If you gave the access he can see you recorded internet history .
Your router may have logs which they can check to look for issues, so could be that.
I’ve seen some routers where it displays graphs breaking down the types of usage (Web. FTP, gaming, video) although these should be taken with a pinch of salt as it’s down to what is expected that port/protocol to be used for, so it could be that if your router has a page that displays that.
I wouldn’t usually expect your router to keep an extensive history of your DNS requests (however your ISP may do so, so bear that in mind if you plan to visit illegal websites). They would not know what page you visited though (assuming you are connected using HTTPS).
If they had a reason to need to look at your computer they might have seen your browsing history.
How much they can see depends on what the router retains so the model might allow you get get more accurate responses. Generally, routers that have logging turned on will just retain IP addresses along with some metadata about the packets like time, direction, etc. More robust routers will also retain DNS requests, URLs, etc but very few of them have the capacity to retain them for very long because those logs just keep growing.
This is as much as they can see if you’re router even has deep packet inspection https://imgur.com/a/R4MzGNV
It depends on which devices he had access to. If he was using your computer, he could potentially access your full history, but you would’ve been able to see him do it.
If he was just using your router, it would be highly unlikely he was able to review your history. However, if you’re a high-value target (someone trading with bitcoins or something like that), an hostile party could pretend being from the ISP to try to infiltrate your network.