From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 20 19:28:47 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38FA116A479 for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 19:28:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz (southernuniform.com [66.76.92.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD4AD43D46 for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 19:28:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [192.168.2.2] ([69.27.149.254]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.13.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k5KJRqw3024497 for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 14:28:13 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Message-ID: <44984C2E.50602@daleco.biz> Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 14:27:42 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060509 SeaMonkey/1.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Chat Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: OT: Employee 'Net Usage, proxy server, restrictions, legal, etc. X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 19:28:47 -0000 Hello, fellow FBSDers.... I've had two clients in the last month or so call and ask about limiting employee browsing (in addition to killing more spam, *sigh*) on their networks. I've no problem implementing this sort of thing with Squid (just finished setting it up at home; don't want the kids to learn any four-letter words from the 'Net before the age of majority [wish me luck!]), but I wonder if anyone could share experiences/insight into the legal aspects, the employee dynamics and potential responses, other issues that may arise, etc., if we proxy all the browsers and start banning sites (or, in the contrary, only allowing business-related sites) via a proxy server. IANAL. I also know that YANAL. This won't be written up in any format other than "some experts agree that" 'foo'.* Any thoughts? TIA! Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. *Unless, of course, you just *have* to have credit, copyright, etc. OOPS! Did I just say 'copyright' ? -- Power and ignorance is a detestable cocktail. -- Poul Henningsen [1894-1967]