On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 09:43:24 -0700 (PDT), Jim Carter <jimc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message <Pine.LNX.4.53.0308270926070.7868@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > 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. ..Deswhal, you may use this out to qualify the why not etc, to your company. And, my advice is, get a new job, we'll help. The chew out: ..Mahatma Gandhi was once asked how he felt about Western Civilization. He responded: "That would be a very good idea." ..the same can be said about American Intelligence. ..I see _no_ honorable reason your company can legally snoop on someone sending their own CV to get a job in a better company, and this snooping is a criminal offence, in _all_ civilized countries and jurisdictions. ..furthermore, this snooping is commonly known as espionage and is a criminal offence in _all_ countries and jurisdictions I am aware of, both civilized and not, and unless you do it for the government in your own or an allied country, on your own governments order or as a volonteer spy, and you get caught, you're in for anywhere between 20 years and death. ..on volonteering your services in helping develop technology to another and possibly allied, _but_unknown_ intelligence service, this may also violate export laws, and you will wanna make _sure_ those 20 years upwards, qualify as "worth it", "fair use" and "in good faith", and "monitoring" people sending their own CV's, does _not_. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case.
