Re: They are coming back from holdays


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"Leythos" <void@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In article <gcstbk$leb$1@xxxxxxxx>, chilly8@xxxxxxxxxxx says...
And it was NOT unethical for people to tune into the Democratic
or Republican conventions from work.


If they violate company policy then it's unethical, period.

You are a blight on this group because you constantly advocate and
assist people in doing things that violate their company policy, could


However, there are commercial public VPN services that encourage
this. One that was used heavily during the Olympics to circumvent
geographic filters on video during the Olympics, also advertises
being able to circumvent workplace filtering as one of its selling points.

One of their selling points is "Your employer or IT admin won't know
you are using it". This is a company in Cyprus operating servers at
server farms in Germany, England, and Ukraine. For about
USD$26.40 (at current exchange rates) per month, you have access
to a VPN server that encrypts at double the normal VPN encryption
strength, strong enough where there is no possible way that IT admins
could crack it with current technology. I would LOVE to see some
IT admin here try and crack and sniff a 256 bit encryption scheme.

I did see a lot of connections coming through this company's servers
in Germany and England, during the broadcast of the vice presidential
deabate,
probably a lot of people tuning on on the debate from work in a manner
where the boss will NEVER know they are tuning into the debates from
work. That information will ONLY be known to the company in Cyprus
that operates the servers.

If you had traffic going to strange machiens in Germany and England on
2nd October, that was probably someone tuning into the VP debate.

They also market heavily to people living or travelling in countries such
as China, Saudi Arabia, or Iran, which heavily censor the Net. If you
use this company' service, the authorities in those countries will NEVER
know what you are up to. This company in Cyprus makes that a selling
point for its services.

When I use my own VPN server from censorious countries, I know
that what I do won't be detected. Since I like to go to Syria once
or twice a year to gamble at one of only a handful of casinos on the
Middle East, I can use my VPN connection to bypass government
firewalls and check my Email on Hotmail (blocked in Syria), and
the Syrian authorites NEVER know what I am up to. I also use
VPN to access Skype (also blocked in Syria) to check for any
voicemail messages related to my radio station, and, once again,
the Syrian authorities cannot POSSIBLY know what I am up to.
While I am only using 168 bit encryption, that is enough to
keep my use of Skype from being detected.





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