[ILUG] RE: list trivia: disclaimers

Justin Mason jm at jmason.org
Wed Aug 6 13:42:41 IST 2008


Gary Pigott writes:
> Paul,
> 
> Get a clue. Brian may work for a small-ish indigenous software company, 
> but they deal with the public sector internationally, so there are huge 
> legal issues around confidential client data leaks. All email traffic in 
> and out of the network is monitored & archived, and stuff that can't be 
> reliably monitored has to be blocked. Gmail, MSN, Yahoo & Co. are the 
> first thing that get blocked at the proxy. One guy I went to college 
> with that works in the insurance industry has access to *3* websites at 
> the office: the company's, BBC news and CNN. That’s it! Typically 
> desktops are locked down so users can't install applications, USB keys 
> don't work, and all ports except 80 & 443 get blocked on the firewall to 
> kill IM & P2P.

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--j.



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