On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Deshwal Chand wrote: > I am using IPTABLES and Squid. I want to monitor all the traffic going out > of this box. Suppose someone sends his/her CV from our network using his/her > Yahoo or Hotmail account, then I may get an alert. Another person pointed out that you could make a copy of your datastream, using iptables facilities, and feed it to a program that you write, which would do the analysis. But actually analysing the data would be very hard, since you would have to understand meaning and intent, not just trigger on text strings. In American custom and law, monitoring users' content is not proper behavior. At UCLA there is a specific regulation that would forbid it at my site. Commercial web hosts such as msn.com have rules forbidding pornographic, defamatory, illegal, etc. postings, but in the USA the custom is that the host has to wait until someone claims to have been harmed by the posting, before taking action. A few years ago, aol.com got proactive about editing postings that criticized AOL, and they were severely flamed for it. I don't know the situation in Indian and British law, but you should definitely consult a lawyer, as well as a spiritual advisor who can give you guidance in proper behavior according to Indian custom, before snooping on users to detect people trying to get a better job elsewhere. If I were interviewing a new programmer and he/she said he left his previous job because the employer was snooping on him, I would consider that a sufficient reason to leave the job. James F. Carter Voice 310 825 2897 FAX 310 206 6673 UCLA-Mathnet; 6115 MSA; 405 Hilgard Ave.; Los Angeles, CA, USA 90095-1555 Email: jimc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.math.ucla.edu/~jimc (q.v. for PGP key)
