[TriLUG] OT: tracking software.

[Jon Carnes]

Squid and squidguard. I have several installs of this at government
locations that are used in just this fashion.

On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 09:20, gregbrown at mindspring.com wrote:
> brandon said:
> upgrade everyone to xp or better linux and then take away their rights to
> install other software
> 
> Can't be done.  At least not yet.  I am stuck with the desktops they have 
> in place at least until Q2 05.
> 
> brandon said;
> ...also put have your client put a policy in place that
> any non-business related apps will result in getting fired.  
> 
> I am working on crafting this document now.
> 
> brandon said:
> As far as the web surfing...put in squid and make people authenticate to the 
> squid then you can run all kinds of reports showing what they have been 
> surfing.  Before she can monitor any of these things legally they must make 
> everyone sign some type of policy that states that they can monitor everything 
> employees do, otherwise they are could get sued for evation of privacy.
> 
> Are you sure about that?  I have to check with my attorney but I was fairly 
> certain that, at least for web surfing, the Intenet connection is a company 
> resource and usage of that resource can be controlled by the company.  As 
> far as desktops I was also under the impression that since these were company 
> resources there was no "right to privacy" on a device which was not owned by 
> the user.  I was under the impression that most of the documents you are made 
> to sign were just "double-plus CYA" types of things.
> 
> I like the authenticated squid server, though.  
> 
> 
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