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RE: OT: Recording IM sessions
From: "Schott, Erik J Mr ANOSC/FCBS" <erik.schott-FCBS () NETCOM ARMY MIL>
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 11:27:44 -0700
Good day, gentlemen. We have strayed from the topic of the original post. The OP merely wanted to know "[...] if there is a program that is out there that will put together IM sessions for me. Any ideas or feedback?" Any legal ramifications the OP may suffer for monitoring that traffic are between him and his organization's legal department and belong in another forum. Thank you. -----Original Message----- From: Paul Melson [mailto:pmelson () gmail com] Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 10:26 AM To: 'Bristol, Gary L.'; 'Chris Lyon'; 'Joel Esler' Cc: snort-users () lists sourceforge net Subject: RE: [Snort-users] OT: Recording IM sessions That's certainly part of it - many companies have regulatory and/or policy obligations to prevent or at least monitor IM traffic. And there's no expectation of privacy with your employers' computers blah blah blah... The other part of it is that most IM technologies (AIM, IRC, ICQ, etc.) are gaining popularity as attack vectors and backdoor channels. Most have means of transferring files or running some form of script that can perform some variation of a shell(). And many of these systems are designed to circumvent firewall rules that would otherwise restrict access to them. (And I don't just mean searching for unblocked ports, though some clients definitely will - Yahoo in particular can work through an HTTP proxy using GET and POLL requests, so blocking CONNECT isn't good enough anymore.) PaulM ________________________________ Subject: RE: [Snort-users] OT: Recording IM sessions I don't mean to pry on this conversation, which means I will, but unless it's giving up Company secrets, or discussing a commision of a criminal act is there really anything you can legally do about it. Not unless your company policy covers what people can and can not have conversations about. Or am I not getting what this conversation is about? ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ Snort-users mailing list Snort-users () lists sourceforge net Go to this URL to change user options or unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/snort-users Snort-users list archive: http://www.geocrawler.com/redir-sf.php3?list=snort-users ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ Snort-users mailing list Snort-users () lists sourceforge net Go to this URL to change user options or unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/snort-users Snort-users list archive: http://www.geocrawler.com/redir-sf.php3?list=snort-users
Current thread:
- OT: Recording IM sessions Chris Lyon (Jun 21)
- Re: OT: Recording IM sessions Joel Esler (Jun 21)
- Re: OT: Recording IM sessions Chris Lyon (Jun 21)
- Re: OT: Recording IM sessions Harry Hoffman (Jun 21)
- Re: OT: Recording IM sessions M. Shirk (Jun 21)
- Re: OT: Recording IM sessions Alex Butcher, ISC/ISYS (Jun 22)
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- RE: OT: Recording IM sessions Bristol, Gary L. (Jun 21)
- Re: OT: Recording IM sessions Chris Lyon (Jun 22)
- RE: OT: Recording IM sessions Paul Melson (Jun 22)
- RE: OT: Recording IM sessions Schott, Erik J Mr ANOSC/FCBS (Jun 22)
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- Re: OT: Recording IM sessions Chris Lyon (Jun 22)
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- Re: OT: Recording IM sessions Jason (Jun 22)
- Re: OT: Recording IM sessions Joel Esler (Jun 21)