Wireless Troubleshooting

Wireless Network: How do i prevent my housemate from seeing what I look at on the internet?

She is the administrator of the wireless network and she's not the type of person I want knowing everything I look at. Please help! Things are already tense as it is. I really really need my privacy. :-( Is there a program I can download to do this?

Public Comments

1. if you have 2 computers she can't see you
2. delete the browsing history
3. If she knows what she's doing there's no way to stop her. Sniffing traffic on a wireless network is child's play for someone who knows what they're doing and has the proper tools. WireShark and WinPCAP is all that it takes. They're free, open source and very powerful. People who don't really know networking will give this a thumbs down rating. I've been doing networking for 18 odd years and believe me, if she knows what she's doing there's no way to stop her.
4. There is no way she can see what you are doing over the network while you are doing it. Your browser's history does expose your activities, though. Set the browser's preferences to delete the history when you shut it down. Total anonymity. Another strategy would be to use a second browser (Chrome, Opera, Safari, etc.) for your porn adventures and don't put it on the desktop.
5. If your administartor does not has software that she can use to monitor your screen display, then you should be fine. After every usage you have on the internet, go to tools - internet options - and then there should be a delete tab under your browsing files history. Delete all and then go to settings and set the number of days of stored history to 0. By doing this, your computer will never remember anything you go on on the web, enabling you to go on anything you want without your administartor looking at your computer or your history. This also works if she can see what you have been looking at from her computer :)
6. Well if she can look at what you are doing, that means she has root privileges to see what internet sites go through the router, not just your computer. That means there is no way to block this. But I don't really think she can look at what your doing, unless you share a computer with her, or she watches you over your shoulder
7. Delete your history. :]
8. She the administrator of the wireless router which allows her to control which computers are allowed to connect and stuff like the password/key, and block specific websites from being accessible to everyone, but that doesn't give her the ability to see what you're doing. That would require special monitoring tools that it's unlikely she has. To see what you've been doing, she'd have to be on your computer (or looking over your shoulder) It's not like TV where Lex Luthor sees everything you type in real time. As the others said, just delete your browsing history, don't save login/passwords etc.
9. If she is a network administrator then she should know how to do all the sniffing and packet watches she would need. Wireless or Wired doesn't make a difference. Voice over IP calls can be sniffed and relistened to the entire phone conversation if done properly. Ways around this are buying firewall and privacy software that will encrypt your packets or make you invisible on the network. This still be defeated if she knows she she is doing. Ultimately there is no way to prevent the Network Admin from monitoring you if they are truly a network administrator. All of this is based on your housemate having her own computer and a high knowledge of network administration or willingness to want to spy on you. If you share a computer then deleting internet history and cookies will prevent her from spying on you for the most part. If she is the administrator of the single computer also she can view your documents saved on the computer without your permission. Lastly there are many different key stroke programs that will record every key stroke on placed on the keyboard. This can be hardware or software and can be used to monitor everything that is done on a computer. Network Security is a high risk so there are alot more tools for the administrator to "spy" then there are for the users to avoid it.
10. I am the administrator of my wireless router. I run a program called network magic. This program tell me when a computer uses the network, which site it goes on, what time, etc. If she has a similar program, then you are out of luck. She knows everything you are doing on the network. If she has administrator log-in on your own computer then you are really out of luck. There is no such thing as privacy in the IT industry. Every data can be traced and viewed with the right programs. My recommendation is either move out or buy your own internet service.