Shit dude. Create an SSH tunnel and hide your ass. Use Portable Tunnelier and Google Chrome with the SwitchProxy extension, once you get the server set up.
Management at where I work hired an outside company to do a security audit on the network and systems. Noone in IT knew about it. Some people got exposed for having affairs with coworkers, a few got caught talking about doing coke over the weekend, etc. I've been defaulting to paranoia lately.
It's their computers, networks, telephones and anything else. They can do whatever they want and it's perfectly legal. You have no privacy at work.
To get out on the internet now, we boot an OS in a virtual machine on a trucrypted thumbdrive and then run TOR on top of a VPN that tunnels out over port 53 as that's the only open port on the firewall that's not monitored. Here is a FAQ for those interested in details.
The rumor going around is that someone embezzeled a couple million dollars from the company and the management has responded by turning the place into a slave state. Metal detectors, bag searches, security cameras, etc. There is one plus though.
If someone I don't like and a manager are in the break room at the same time, I'll stand next to them and give a quick, subtle head nod towards the person I don't like. Shortly after that they'll be in a confeence room getting reamed by HR and security.
Hey, yeah... God here, And don't worry no need to rush, I've got eternity to waste... I'm just having some trouble uploading an avatar. I keep getting this:
Oops! An Error Occurred
The server returned a "500 Internal Server Error".
Something is broken. Please e-mail us at [email] and let us know what you were doing when this error occurred. We will fix it as soon as possible. Sorry for any inconvenience caused.
Thanks Michael. You were always my favorite of your siblings...