On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 20:43, James Gray wrote: > On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 04:38 pm, Howard Lowndes wrote: > *snipped* > > "Unless employers have a court order, they will need to give employees > > notice that surveillance will be conducted," he said. > > > > That could mean a warning box pops up when the computer is turned on. > > We already have a pre-login message on our systems that basically says: > > "You agree to adhere to the acceptable use policy. You understand that > anything and everything you do is logged and monitored and by logging into > this system agree to allow this to occur. If you don't like this, HR will > be happy to receive your resignation."
add to this "...and archived..." Mind you, the resignation bit might just land you in trouble, > > I wonder if that's enough? Besides our mail gateway and ms-exchange server > are in Boston, MA, so I guess we aren't exactly in the NSW > jurisdiction....or are we? probably, if the NSW courts so determine it. Just look at the Gutnik case in Victoria a couple of years ago. > > <SOAP_BOX> > I hate all this legal crap - they're lusers for fsck's sake. They aren't > smart enough to know what's best for them....dammit! They want to send > porn to their mates and chew vast amounts of bandwidth on non-work related > crap on MY network and now the government says - sure, that's OK, that's > why you give them Internet access!?! Gaddam!! It's also the reason why you install proxies, relay blocking and traffic shaping. Mind you, it would be more economic to do that over Linux or *BSD than it ever would over M$. There is nothing that says that you have to allow your employees to have email access other than that which is work related. They might scream, but screw them... > </SOAP_BOX> > > Rant over.....back to my beer. > > James > -- > Fortune cookies says: > And now for something completely different. -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people <http://www.lannetlinux.com> ------------------------------------------ Flatter government, not fatter government - Get rid of the Australian states. ------------------------------------------ To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. - Scott Granneman, SecurityFocus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
