Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 21:39:57 +0200 From: Willie Viljoen <will@unfoldings.net> To: Marco Radzinschi <marco@radzinschi.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IPFW, blocking IM servers Message-ID: <200301252139.57881.will@unfoldings.net> In-Reply-To: <20030125093953.O74053-100000@radzinschi.com> References: <20030125093953.O74053-100000@radzinschi.com>
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> > I have a text file on the Squid proxy which contains a list of blocked > sites, which I include below. Only a technically astute user would be > able to bypass this setup. S1ince this would require very deliberate an= d > complicated steps, such as setting up a VPN tunnel through SSL, this wo= uld > be clear grounds for termination. > I wouldn't fire an employee for doing that, I'd move them to the IT secur= ity=20 department... The problem with blocking them is that more will always pop up, and more = ways=20 to get around controles will too. Unless you have a situation where you=20 absolutely have to block, ie, you have users that won't listen to a kind=20 request, ie, school kids, your kids, management, I would not pick blockin= g as=20 a strategy, instead, tell them that the use of IM services is not allowed= on=20 the network, and that infringement will be considered time not spent on=20 business activities, take it off their salaries, they'll stop trying righ= t=20 away. --=20 Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) will@unfoldings.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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