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Originally Posted by -Ralph-
Which you don't know, which is exactly we would need to know the infrastructure. Being found to be doing something to circumvent the monitoring in place would be a much more serious breach of the IT policy than to be spending too much time on the web. It'd be a disciplinary hearing, not just a quiet "lay off the internet" chat, so don't give the guy advice that could get him into trouble at work if he decides to trust your information and follow it.
It's ike playing slot machines only when you know they are about to pay out, to cheat any system, you need to know the system.
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100 % correct regarding the disciplinary proceedings. There are also open source products that can do virtually every thing that most small operations want, so the company may have spent very little or nothing more than time, and still have a reasonable web filtering and proxy setup.
I think the problem arises from the fact that many people think that it's their right to access the Internet at any time they want to. A few months back one of our users was incensed that they could not access their personal e-mail account, and stated it was their human right to. We had not blocked it on purpose, it was just that hotmail had changed their access procedure, so our filter had blocked it. I pointed out that they had perfectly adequate organisational e-mail, but of course they had made a personal on-line order and were awaiting an e-mail so it was our fault. They were absolutely gob smacked when I told them that we did not have to provide access to their personal e-mail and that many businesses block all but their own.