On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 05:23:37PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Company policy is a big way to destroy morale and make people > unproductive.
Perhaps it's time to find a new company, then? :P > The people that i'm trying to restrict are web programmers > and know many ways to circumvent squid and acls. Then it's completely impossible to block them. They'll just tunnel through anything you can set up. Any kind of http, dns, or even mail or ping access to the internet can be used by widely available applications to construct a tunnel, and these people will be quite capable of finding and using them. Furthermore, the entire exercise will waste impressive amounts of time on the part of everybody, and the final result will be slightly less secure and controlled than whatever you have at present. To round that off, the staff who were previously using this software to take a break (which tends to improve their creative efforts once they get back to work) will instead be expending their energy on working around the blocks. Nothing in this outcome is good. > Discussions with the management left me in charge to block messenger > access and it will take longer until i reinstall all the workstations > since they need some maintenance working and i thought it will be easier > to control access from a firewall point of view, boy i was wrong. You need to go back to the management and tell them that this is the wrong approach. In no way will pursuing this course of action increase the profitability of the business, even in the short term, and it's quite likely to decrease productivity - tell them that explicitly. Either the staff using these applications are a real threat to the bottom line by not doing what they are told in this respect, in which case you have both grounds and an urgent need to fire them, or they aren't, in which case it's a waste of time and money to try and stop them. It's up to management to figure out which category each employee is in. There are no recorded instances in history where physically chaining staff to their desks has improved the company's profit. This is the same thing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Shorewall-users mailing list Shorewall-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-users