On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:44:24 -0500, John McKown wrote: >Don't let the outsiders connect directly to the company LAN. Instead, >force them to use something like Microsoft Terminal Services to logon to >a multiuser Windows server. Once there, allow them to use a 3270 >emulator. That way, the emulator is running on the server, not on the >user's desktop. That stops IND$FILE and ftp transfers directly to the >user's desktop. I am fairly sure that it stops doing cut'n'paste as >well. What it does not stop is ftp to their share on the server, then >email the code to themselves. But this is becoming more of a PITA to the >user, which does help to discourage them. It all depends on why they are >doing it. (cost vs. benefit to them). > >This same concept can be applied to other systems such as Linux. I think that a determined programmer would just take screen shots to a file - or just take snapshots with a camera (or continuous video) to capture the data for post-processing by OCR software. (I do something very similar with my genealogy hobby... not terribly difficult or expensive if you are determined.) -- Tom Schmidt (BTW, I know of a company nearby that has a policy prohibiting cellphones with cameras but they have no prohibition regarding cameras without cellphones. You may bring in a digital camera - as long as it isn't part of a cell phone!)
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