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No, in general, they can only track corporate emails. This is also why (at least one reason) many firms block gmail and other outside mail services entirely.
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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Does everyone in an IB use *nix?
Outside of quant research groups and IT/developers, most have no idea what Linux or Unix are.
I worked at a Broker dealer and they tracked all e-mails from Outlook (corporate), but Gmail was blocked as was Hotmail.
They can probably track any attachments you add though
Short answer is no.
Long answer is yes, there are ways if your firm is particularly paranoid, or if you give them reason. If you're engaging in some massive securities fraud, don't assume using your Gmail is keeping you safe. Gmail themselves also (obviously) has everything logged.
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You'd be surprised by how sophisticated the monitoring systems at certain banks are. I found out myself only because I ended up as an advisor to the company that provides some of that software to our compliance department. When they ran through what they do for us, I decided that I'd be extra careful from that point on in terms of what I'd ever do on my office systems.
Genghiskhan
wanna give some specific example for our amusement?
The regular gmail url is blocked at most work offices, but some of the following variations may work. The last one works at my office while the rest are blocked.
https://www.gmail.com https://gmail.com http://m.gmail.com https://m.gmail.com http://googlegmail.com https://googlemail.com http://mail.google.com/mail/x https://mail.google.com/mail/x
[quote=banker88]The regular gmail url is blocked at most work offices, but some of the following variations may work. The last one works at my office while the rest are blocked.
https://www.gmail.com https://gmail.com http://m.gmail.com https://m.gmail.com http://googlegmail.com https://googlemail.com http://mail.google.com/mail/x https://mail.google.com/mail/x[/quote]
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