CAN AN ETHERNET CONNECTION SAVE INFORMATION?

[DB]

I recently connected my laptop to an ethernet connection at a hotel... when I want to login to Facebook there was someone else's username that appeared.. Can an ethernet connection store someone else's login or has someone been using my laptop at the office??? I did not recognize the username..

Thanks

[mroilfield]

It sounds to me like some one else has been using your comp.

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

Can an ethernet connection store someone else's login

Can what store what where?

[DB]

Maybe not store, but somehow remember my login id... After I connected to the ethernet at the hotel... I went to Facebook's home page... and someone else's email address was in the username... was that the last person connected to the ethernet? Is that possible? Can it remember email addresses?  My laptop was not used for months... so I do not know why there was a strange email address that appeared..

Thanks

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

First, I believe you mean Internet.

Second, yes it can remember username/email fields.

Third, if the computer was not used for months, the last person who used it must have logged into facebook and got the computer to remember it.

[DB]

Sorry I meant connecting to the internet using an ethernet connection. I did not know if security can be compromised using the connection at a hotel room. So a computer can only remember username/email fields and not a connection?

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

Say for example, I hook up my laptop to the internet and type in my email and password and log in.
Then I disconnect and another laptop comes in and connects to the same network. They cannot see what I just did.

It doesn't work that way.