IT guy here, I work in the finance industry and have never worked with eduroam, but I have some experience of what we normally can see.
I am not an infosec guy, so I can’t speak to what they can see.
In my experience a normal IT team will see the connections your computer makes to the remote host (in this case google), but can’t see the information transfered.
This depends on if your connection uses https (gmail does) and weather or not the network uses deep packet inspection.
Https encrypts the traffic, sort of like you putting a big pink stuffed elefant in your car boot and driving it to your new place, people won’t see the big pink elefant, but they will see your car going from A to B.
Deep packet inspection is like a security checkpoint between A and B, the officers will open you car, log that you are carrying a big pink stuffed elefant, and send you on your way.
You can use a tool like ssllabs testing service to find out the issuer of a certificate, and compare that to the issuer on the certificate you get in your browser.
However, the most important thing to remember is that we as IT guy don’t care about what you do unless you break the rules or in some other way are causing harm to the network.
We don’t do pinpoint surveilence, unless we have a reason to.
We collect data yes, but that is only really used for statistics and troubleshooting.
But we have plenty of automation that will log the shit out of a misbehaving system, there are plenty of similar systems, but the one I am familiar with is Microsoft Defender 365.
If it notices something odd or bad it will log everything related to it, files modified, the user running the program, registry values changed, connections to other computers, commands run, and more, but it will only do that when bad action is being taken, not just by connecting to gmail.
We in IT don’t have time or interest in looking at generic logs for fun.
The one thing that might be putting you on the radar is the use of a third party app, it might not be approved software if you ran it on a company laptop, but since it is a personal laptop, I wouldn’t worry about it.
TL;DR: It is doubtful that they will see what you have written, and even less likely that they have access, and even less likely that they care or even knows about it.
But if you fear people reading what you write, you have two options, one easy, the other one less so.
Stop writing, easy, then there is nothing to be found.
Local encryption, get veracrypt, create a new encrypted file, mount it, format it, and save your texts there.
You didn’t tell us what you think the usual 9 to 5 pays. Are you asking whether a tech job pays more than minimum wage? Many of them do. Also, when you’re interviewing, and even when you’re writing a cover letter, try to avoid the term power user, and instead provide details of things that you’ve actually done. Anyone can call themselves a power user, but what does that even mean? If you say you’re a power user, if you’re lucky the interviewer will ask you for details, and if you’re unlucky they won’t, because they’ll assume you’re just grandstanding. So you’re better off providing a little extra information up front, and not gambling on them asking for it.
This thread has reminded me that I have Ruckus APs that mesh. But support had been dropped because they are “old”. Presumably there is no open source solution that I can flsh these with, still allowing me the meshing?
Learning Linux was probably the very best thing for my career.
The fact that I use Linux as my primary OS has been a positive in almost every interview I’ve been in as the interviewee. Linux has been used everywhere I’ve been, and that represents a huge amount of upskilling they can skip.
As an interviewer, I’d say that developers who use Linux generally understand their development stack better.
“Encrypted email” only works between encrypted providers. ProtonMail and Tutanota are both very inconvenient, and all I want is an email that’s not scanned for marketing.
Since 2018, ProtonMail kept getting worse, especially with the recent AI stuff. Dodged bullet, IMO.
$6/month = Custom domains, and any amount of emails under those domains. I can send and receive from any domain xxx@yyy [dot] lynndotpy [dot] dev, for example.
CalDav and CardDav provider = Contacts, calendar, and reminders sync. Works perfectly on iOS too, if you like that.
It replaced my finnicky NextCloud for half the cost.
And one of my preferred show; Utopia (the UK version) warning it is unfinished, only two seasons but this is just a great show. Take care of not watching the cropped version. Also it is so cool this TV show aired before COVID19.
Sharex. The ultimate scree shotting utility. There are dozens of post capture tasks like upload to website, copy to clipboard, save to file, etc. You can do all of them at once, and it even caputes gifs!
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