Re: Packet sniffing problems

From: Dom W. (dom_at_aconcagua)
Date: 03/29/04 

Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 09:09:58 -0800

On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 10:46:39 +0300, Thor Kottelin <thor@anta.net>
wrote:

>Should you happen to be a member of the Internet Society, I would like to
>draw your attention to section 10 of the Code of Conduct, available at
><URL:https://www.isoc.org/members/codeconduct.shtml>.
>
>Thor

While I agree with section 10 in principle, in reality, it's rarely
that simple.

Let's say you're the boss and a female employee walks into your
office. While she was looking through the Internet Explorer history
on an office terminal, she found someone had repeatedly been going to
pornographic websites, some of them even potentially illegal. She
wanted to notify you and also commented on how offended she was by the
material being accessed. What would you do as the boss?

1. Tell her, "lighten up sugar, boys will be boys."
2. Send out an office memo reminding people it's against policy to
visit such sites.
3. Send out a memo reminding people of company policy and also
notifying them that you will start tracking URL's visited to make sure
this doesn't happen again.

Again, perhaps in Finland option #3 isn't available to you. In the
US, if you don't implement option #3, this employee could end up
owning the company in a lawsuit should it happen again.

I personally don't believe in routinely reading private e-mail,
although I think it's an option that should be open to bosses.
Corporate trashcans are filled with the careers of bosses who didn't
know that dirty, offensive, or off color jokes were circulating around
the office e-mail system. My boss spent 30 years building this
company from the ground up. To see him lose it all because he wasn't
paying attention to the office network is unfathomable. If it was my
company, I don't know that I'd do any differently.

Dom

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