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turpieaj

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Anyone had any experience of this?
Some work collegue wants me to build and set up a master pc and around 7 or 8 pc clients networked together (easy so far), but what about the software that logs peeps on and off? - is there any obligations of tracking peoples surfing habits on the clients incase of some naughty shizz? Should it be ethernet or wirless networked?
Would a normal "broadband" connection of say 8meg (if its possible to reach that speed) be enough shared speed for the clients browsing or would I need some mutha of a speedy connection with plenty of bandwidth?

Possibly one for doolz to answer lol.;)

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2mb would do it easily and most cheap routers now have content filters and logging in them and unless your going to be using that master pc as a server you might as well just use local system accounts for them to log on and off

go for wireless if the place isnt ethernetted up....if it is go with ethernet imo
 
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johns_ar said:
2mb would do it easily and most cheap routers now have content filters and logging in them and unless your going to be using that master pc as a server you might as well just use local system accounts for them to log on and off

go for wireless if the place isnt ethernetted up....if it is go with ethernet imo
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Nice one - Johns thanks for the info:thumbsup:
 
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legally you have to be careful, log the traffic and keep it for future use but don't actively police other than use content blocking software like websense. People have a certain right of privacy, even at work, so you shouldn't be reading the logs without sufficient cause.

Not that you can't, you just have to justify it.
 
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fugjostle said:
legally you have to be careful, log the traffic and keep it for future use but don't actively police other than use content blocking software like websense. People have a certain right of privacy, even at work, so you shouldn't be reading the logs without sufficient cause.

Not that you can't, you just have to justify it.
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cheers for the feedback fugjostle-nice one:thumbsup:
 
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Isnt checking on what people are browsing for justification enough?

We got about 10 public pc's at our 4 sites and we monitor what everyone in the company looks at as well as these public ones.
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Naw, the employee has an expectation of privacy at work even if you say they don't. Content blocking and other systems are fine but actively looking at what is being browsed for with individual users is a bit of a minefield without proper justification. Automated systems are the way to go to cover off certain legal requirements but manually looking at what I'm browsing on a public PC is a breach of my human rights.

With proper senior management authorisation and justification such as you suspect the employee of breaching policy/laws is the only time you should look at his/her browsing habits. Log them by all means but don't investigate them.

With them being public PC's I wonder if the similar laws to telephones apply? A company can only monitor telephone calls made by employees if they provide a private phone within the environment for a personal call.

I'm no lawyer but I have attended a number of forensic seminars/courses and this is the general advice I get. The basic rule of thumb is... you can do it but you have to cover your ass with proper justification (can be blagged easily) and proper authorisation (manager has to approve it).

As I said, I'm no lawyer so don't take my word for it... its just my interpretation of what I've been told.
 


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