Sorry if offtopic, but I'm really in need of some advice . Do university isps keep a constant monitor of keyword

I've entered some very questionable websites through my phone, but was connected to my university's wifi by accident. I'm very scared that the university has these categories of websites on alert, and that. They ace it back to me. Do unviersities have a constant monitor on the keywords of some sites?


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[2 Points] galaxyandspace:

Questionable websites

I might need to know in order to answer, but at the same time, don't want to know...

Where they .onion sites?

do ISPs monitor?

Yes. Maybe not keywords, but they do monitor general traffic. No telling how in depth unless you work in that department...


[2 Points] darknetonly:

They might have your IP logged and the website now banned on their intranet, if they looked really hard.

Even if they are somehow logging physical MAC addresses of devices, and sites browsed, they wouldn't have any way to link you to a particular MAC address.

That is, unless you have to register each individual computer and cell phone you use on your school's WLAN. In that case, they do have a link between your MAC address (physical HEX address of your computer or phone's WiFi chip) and your name, since you had to get it registered.

But this all seems silly, because it's so unlikely they would catch this, even if you do have to register your devices. They are most likely looking for people using tons of bandwidth and slowing down the network. And like I said, if any computer can log onto their network, without registering, then you are basically anonymous since that MAC address they see could be anyone.

Very unlikely they spotted a site you visited.


[1 Points] None:

I wouldn't worry. Either way, the deed is done now, and worrying about it is going to do nothing. I'd be very surprised if anything came of this.


[1 Points] JackDostoevsky:

It depends on where you searched. Did you search on Google? If so, you're likely fine -- as was a bit of news, Google is now encrypting all of their searches, and there's no way that your university would be able to view the contents of your search.

Duck Duck Go also encrypts all of its searched (certainly all of the content that gets sent to the client) so if you used that then you're also likely fine.


[1 Points] BlackBroker:

if you used tor then they can't see what sites you accessed however it is against school policy at some schools to use tor on campus wifi


[1 Points] None:

I wouldn't worry about it too much. Depending on the level of University, like if they're say Arizona State compared to Appalachian State, you are probably cool with a D2 D3 never figuring it out. I went to a D2 my first semester, studied Erowid like all the damn time, downloaded a bunch of games and movies on their server which needed my MAC address to get to. Nothing 2 years later.