Re: New "worst nightmare" for network admins


Spender wrote:
On 18 Sep 2006 00:19:10 -0700, "Chilly8" <chilly8@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

There is a NEW "worst nightmrae" for network admins, and its name is
Tor. It can defeat all filtering, monitoring, and traffic analisys
becuase the data is encrypted and sent through random addresses and
ports all over the world. And by logging to Privacy net several
times, I have seen the addresses of various government and coroporate
networks show up on address analysis. So someone on your network could
have Tor running on their workstation, and you would NEVER know it.

You have been here before spouting the same tripe. Any network admin can
spot an unusual stream of encrypted data flowing to and from a workstation.
Depending on the environment, that can be an instant tip off that the user
is up to no good. An admin can also use tools to see what applications are
running on a workstation. Again, anything that looks out of the ordinary is
a red flag.

And you keep forgetting the admins ability to remotely view the screen of
any workstation, and the keystroke logging programs used by many companies
to give them hard copies of the legal backing for firing someone.

And there are programs on the market that can hunt down and destroy
these things. here are a number of anti-spyware programs that can hunt
down and destroy any keyloggers, application monitors, screen monitors,
etc, etc, placed on your machine. If they go to examine the machine's
logs, they get nothing, becuase there are no logs to examine on account
of the various keyloggers and other spyware programs having been
destroyed.

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