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Bluzm2
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 31, 2008 - 11:49 am: | 
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Midnight,
If you and your coworkers want to confirm that your boss is snooping, set her up with a couple juicy emails that you and your coworkers are in on.
Make it good enough that she would mention something in the content that would let you know she read the emails..
Kind of like we did with the Japanese at Midway (false water supply problem...).
I'm sure with all the talented devious types here you could come up with a really good one!
Brad |
Court
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 31, 2008 - 12:52 pm: |
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While we are discussing this . . . . I'd like to introduce Mr. Eliot Spitzer who will be speaking this afternoon on the security of all those text messages you send . . . .
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Ducbsa
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 31, 2008 - 01:09 pm: |
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My brother is an IT manager at a company that has some foreign offices. They were having bandwidth overload problems and found that an Asian office's traffic was about 50% porn site surfing! They put a stop to that right away! None of us here would do that, of course - I mean surf, not do the stopping. |
Babired
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 31, 2008 - 01:15 pm: |
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Its almost like living in Baltimore City the cops don't go after the speeders they respond to person to person crimes instead. Why I always felt safe posting here on Bad web and sending a few personal e-mails. Most of my posts are from work.
Its so quiet here you can hear a pin drop! K |
Pkforbes87
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 31, 2008 - 02:15 pm: |
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"My guess is she can tell what keys you stroke."
That's more true than you think.
Check this out:
REFOG Key Monitor
I've had some experience with the free versions of these programs. Even the free ones have the ability to run 100% invisible to anyone without administrative network access. They can record every key pressed, every website visited, every program used. The event logs can be emailed to a predetermined address (your IT dept) or accessed from your PC by any administrator.
Some of the paid versions, which most companies utilize, can even monitor all of your activities in real time. So if your boss feels like it, she can more than likely remotely monitor every detail of what you're seeing on your monitor at work.
There's too much technology out there to risk "extra-ciricular" computer activities at work. |
Hootowl
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 31, 2008 - 02:21 pm: |
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"If a situation comes up where someone needs monitoring, the request usually came from HR"
I manage my company's Websense servers (and IPS/IDS devices). I am PROHIBITED from releasing ANYONE's browsing activities unless I have a written request from HR. Managers ask, I tell them to talk to HR.
HR has yet to authorize any release of information.
"IM logging can be done WITHOUT a common gateway. IPS/IDS devices are really good a this."
That's true, I had forgotten about that. I was thinking more along the lines of an official solution to IM logging and aggregating many IM services through one client, not so much reading the raw data via a span or an inline sniffer.
Monitoring and logging IM traffic using a sniffer is tedious at best and doesn't really lend itself to reporting like an actual gateway product does.
"They were having bandwidth overload problems and found that an Asian office's traffic was about 50% porn site surfing!"
We originally bought Websense to prevent lawsuits by offended employees, but it has turned out to be a very effective security and bandwidth tool. When the plants call and say SAP isn't working and you see that 80% of the pipe is http, it's nice to be able to see where people are streaming video from and block those sites. Viola! SAP works again. IT shops usually don't block sites just for the heck of it. There's usually a legal or business driver for it. |
Xl1200r
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 31, 2008 - 02:39 pm: |
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I work for a Fortune 50 company (yes, 50) and we moniter email, IM, and web usage. Typically, you won't get I'm trouble unless your manager sees a drop in productivity and requests a report, or you're doing something VERY wrong.
As an example, I used to send tons of personal email and do all kinds of surfing to sites like BadWeb, eBay and other very non work related sites. I have never gotten in trouble for any of it.
Conversly, we had a VP a few years back get canned for broadcasting nude videos of himself from his office. Go figure.
In any event, I just got and iPhone and it takes cares of all my web addictions, and I don't even need to be on my work's network. |
Hootowl
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 31, 2008 - 02:53 pm: |
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I work for a non-publicly traded joint venture. Both parents are Fortune 10. They don't share their huge profits with us though. We're pretty cheap when it comes to buying IT toys or we'd probably have that IM gateway. As it is, we block it with the exception of about 15 people and we block attachments for those folks.
(Message edited by hootowl on December 31, 2008) |
Danger_dave
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 31, 2008 - 04:24 pm: |
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I was working as Art Director and Production Manager for a reasonably large publishing house. It was great, a dozen cool magazines - the Rock Music, Rugby and Fishing 'bibles' - were rolling out of the business (that subsequently crumbled in the dotcom meltdown) but it was full of interesting people.
One was Natasha - the deputy publisher. Reasonably hot babe who was put on to keep things running smoothly.
'taash was an Aussie girl who moved to NZ to be with a South African guy.
About 6 weeks after she started work she caught him cheating on her.
So that night she takes the company digital camera (this is back when is cost $2k for a basic), picks up some guy and does a full noise porno shoot of herself doing the full repertoire. Girl got a bad double chin when she was.....anyway - I know because she came into work early next day and downloaded the shots onto my computer and emailed them to said South African.
She told one of my artists who was in early that there was a 'present for dave' on the computer, walked out and was never seen again.
You should have seen the news boys sniffing around my desk when the word got out. I just deleted them. |
Iamike
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 31, 2008 - 06:26 pm: |
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We got a notice the other day banning us from listening to internet radio. It seems that we are getting close to the next step on internet bandwidth and of course we're trying to save money.
The subject came up because during an investigation of an employee the snoop program showed he was on the internet all day. It turned out he was just listening to radio. A couple of years ago I had asked our network engineer in charge of the internet if I could listen to radio since my office is buried in the 'tornado proof' section of the building. At that time he said "Sure, we have plenty of extra bandwidth'. I guess things have changed. |
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