Dave Hinz wrote in news:3997rvF5v27g7U1
@individual.net:

On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 21:21:22 GMT, ff wrote:

I suspect your IT people are trying to keep viruses off the regular
company network. A good idea, believe me.

Yabbut, he said it's a separate T1 feed from the local provider, not
the corporate network. I think maybe they're just overworked and
don't want to deal with it.

Still safer to propose it & get permission, though...



Even if it's a separate network, once he links up the office computers to
that one, the company network is wide open also, since any virus that
gets on any of thier 'workstations' can now infect the sequestered LAN.
Bad thing to do.

Maybe one of the reasons is that the $$ guys don't want to spend money on
the filtering, scanning and other software that is really needed on a
company internet feed.

Be aware, that even if it is a separate network, the IT guys can see any
page you have been to, and anything else you have done on the internet,
it's all monitored through the head-in. Our guys get a weekly report on
who has spent the most time online (no ****, personnel gets this report
also). If you were to try and go to some site you 'shouldn't be' i.e. a
porn site, it emails personnel and admin immediately at both work and
home.
In the US, they can legally read any email you send or recieve, and also
any listen to an voicemail or phone conversations you have, if you are
using thier equipment.
Big brother is here and alive and well.



--
Anthony

You can't 'idiot proof' anything....every time you try, they just make
better idiots.

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