Holger hi,

Just to set the record straight: noone wants to spy on anyone else with this
project. If there was such consideration I would personally tell them to go
where they came from the begining (in spide the fact they are one of the few
respectable software houses in my little country). But I can't speak more
about it.

Nevertheless, I agree that many companies want to spy on people. I guess
that's because of the dot-bomb in America - they had to turn to aggressive
marketing methods such as spying, just to stay alive (or to keep expanding -
a nasty habit of big corps). This, however, doesn't necessarily mean that
companies are the "dark forces" who spy on us. For example why companies
tend to do less spying in places less affected by the dot-bomb, such as
Europe?

Anyway, "my company" (not the one that wants to do the project in question)
is made of 1 manager, 2 programmers and 1 secretary, I know all of them for
years (did I mention that my country is very little?), and I am the one
responsible for the office intranet. The only way my company is going to spy
on me is to have me spy on myself ;-)

BW, Pantelis.


"Holger Metzger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED].;
> Peter Lairo wrote:
> > Pantelis Panayiotou wrote:
> >
> >> - Intercept any web page the user loads and search its contents for
data.
> >
> > Sounds like your company wants to spy on its employees. :(
>
> Most companies do.
> I myself have the "honor" to regularly check the SQUID-proxy logs (using
>  a nifty tool called sarg) and, if I find something baaad, report and
> deny future access to those websites. It's really an annoying job. Just
> a couple of months ago everything was open for everyone around here, but
> then the pinstriped suits marched in and declared the introduction of
> new "security policies". It really changed a lot around here. Oh well,
> going back to work.
>
> - Holger



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