From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 19 07:04:45 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5702D106564A for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 07:04:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from f.bonnet@esiee.fr) Received: from hp9.esiee.fr (hp9.esiee.fr [147.215.1.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 093B38FC15 for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 07:04:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.esiee.fr (mail.esiee.fr [147.215.1.3]) by hp9.esiee.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id E156514E978C for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 09:04:43 +0200 (CEST) X-DKIM: OpenDKIM Filter v2.4.1 hp9.esiee.fr E156514E978C DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=esiee.fr; s=MAILOUT; t=1311059084; bh=Zhf06WS7iNaq/p6KaQL78sa06NRKst45QhPTqKwMw8E=; h=Message-ID:Date:From:MIME-Version:To:Subject:References: In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=B4Mh5Uy4sgiiL2y0aSmsnbhQJiHbZcrB8mADuBNLV0pWWFtcuystHopTvJGFRPVNd buqaPeRAvq67jbn87zeRQDI9iiI+uBvSHg1d93oUOsKwKuY3Mxk823KRC3DTMJkQS3 n7CmIgpjZ3IWzIBD1UP6+4nREQ79yV74+8j1/awc= Received: from mail.esiee.fr (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by VAMS.dummy (Postfix) with SMTP id C74093C3CB5 for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 09:04:43 +0200 (CEST) Received: from secure.esiee.fr (secure.esiee.fr [147.215.1.19]) by mail.esiee.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id A86913C3CAF for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 09:04:43 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [147.215.1.21] (lisa.esiee.fr [147.215.1.21]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: bonnetf) by secure.esiee.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9B776EAE2B for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 09:04:43 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4E252C8B.4040702@esiee.fr> Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 09:04:43 +0200 From: Frank Bonnet User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110617 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <201107190549.p6J5n6sP028960@mail.r-bonomi.com> <4E252119.3030208@esiee.fr> <89EB5E14-AA8E-4265-9C5D-22641ECC1C37@my.gd> In-Reply-To: <89EB5E14-AA8E-4265-9C5D-22641ECC1C37@my.gd> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Tools to find "unlegal" files ( videos , music etc ) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 07:04:45 -0000 On 07/19/2011 08:55 AM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > On 19 Jul 2011, at 08:15, Frank Bonnet wrote: > >> Wow wow !!! I did not want to start a flame war with my post ... >> >> Things for me are clear : >> >> In France it's illegal and I have my boss's instruction : >> >> - find and delete the files that's all. >> > > Bon courage then... > > > A file can not be illegal per se, so you won't be able to detect these by looking up names or contents. > > Even then, if a file is labeled as personal, privacy protection applies and it is *unlawful* for you to process it. > (That is in the same way that your employer is strictly forbidden from peeking inside your email messages clearly labeled as personal, even if they were received on your work mailbox.) > > > You may however force the user to delete it as it's got nothing to do on a work file server and is possibly forbidden by your IT policy. > You may also delete it yourself in accordance with your TOS / IT policy but you should exercise this with care and get a written request from your boss beforehand. > > > You may want to look for files that are unusually large. > They could possibly be ISOs, dvdrips, HD movie dumps... > > Note that, again, just because a file exists and is a certain type doesn't make them illegal. > I myself have several ISOs at work including dumps of our windows XP CDs, win7 upgrade disks, and specialised lawyer software. > > We have the same problem here with users sharing movies on the file servers, and what makes it worse is some of their movie files are legit because they're, for example, official trailers that are reworked and redistributed to our customers. > > > You won't win this, tell your boss it can not be done. We'll see who will win ;-) a good start is to look for files bigger that 500 Mb , I did it and find lot of "disk space consuming" files ... let's see what the file command tells about them ...