[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. Thats 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.
http://code.kryo.se/iodine/
--j.
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