On Wednesday 06 June 2007 12:41:55 Andy Green wrote: > > As someone remarked about the US, employers here are legally responsible > > for the actions of their employees. I can't tell you any specific > > circumstances where companies would decide that it is necessary. I > > believe that companies where a lot of employees have Internet access do > > sometimes put this into their policy, not to use routinely, but in case > > they need to investigate a problem. The key point is that employees must > > have been told in their contract that they can be monitored. It cannot > > be legally done without the knowledge of the employee in question. > > Another practical issue is that most IM traffic is encrypted nowadays > anyway. You can run vnc to see their actual chat session visually or > turn on their chat logging and check the files on the client it but it > doesn't sound like it makes for a good work environment... it sounds > like the kind of thing they'll be wanting to complain about on IM... Here in Spain the most popular IM system is MSN Messenger and it's not encrypted. Just a man-in-the-middle attack you'll be able to read all the conversations And it's almost impossible to defend yourself against those type of attacks :-) Manuel -- Manuel Arostegui Ramirez. Electronic Mail is not secure, may not be read every day, and should not be used for urgent or sensitive issues.
