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RE: Content blocking - Singapore seems to manage??
From: "Desai, Ashish" <Ashish.Desai () fmr com>
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 09:47:47 -0400
-----Original Message----- From: Marcus J. Ranum [SMTP:mjr () nfr net] Sent: Sunday, June 20, 1999 10:59 PM To: Di Phelan; firewall-wizards () nfr net Subject: Re: Content blocking - Singapore seems to manage??
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One of the problems with content blocking is handling violations. I suspect the easiest way to handle them is never to see them in the first place. ;) As I said in my previous message, a lot of companies have _existing_ policies that would cover online "objectionable material" -- they ask for technologies to block it at the firewall yet, at the _same_ time, they have firewall logs that show without reasonable doubt who the offenders are already. Why not just deal with them directly? Oh, no, that would cause too much conflict... In fairness it's because it puts the network manager in a position of having to do H.R.'s job, which is kind of ridiculous. But then the whole idea of preventing communication over a communication channel is kind of ridiculous.
..snip.. Content blocking + proxy logs is needed to cover a company legal liability. We had instances where we blocked porn sites (using some blocking service company) and we still had employees trying repeatedly to go visit those sites. Turns out look at the proxy log we found they were visiting other sites that were not block and were spending quite a lot of time there (whole day!). Investigating further we find they had some really nasty stuff on the local machines. Needless to say some of them got fired and one was handled over to the US District Attorney (child porn). The moral of the story is the company needs to have blocking in place, saying that they did their part to have ?reduce? a hostile work environment and then occasionally visit the proxy logs and do something about it. Ashish
Current thread:
- Content blocking - Singapore seems to manage?? Di Phelan (Jun 20)
- Re: Content blocking - Singapore seems to manage?? Marcus J. Ranum (Jun 20)
- Re: Content blocking - Singapore seems to manage?? Edward Choh (Jun 21)
- Re: Content blocking - Singapore seems to manage?? Technical Incursion Countermeasures (Jun 28)
- Re: Content blocking - Singapore seems to manage?? Edward Choh (Jun 21)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: Content blocking - Singapore seems to manage?? Desai, Ashish (Jun 21)
- RE: Content blocking - Singapore seems to manage?? Alan Lustiger (Jun 21)
- Re: Content blocking - Singapore seems to manage?? Crispin Cowan (Jun 24)
- RE: Content blocking - Singapore seems to manage?? Desai, Ashish (Jun 21)
- RE: Content blocking - Singapore seems to manage?? Henry Sieff (Jun 21)
- Re: Content blocking - Singapore seems to manage?? Marcus J. Ranum (Jun 20)