Hadron Quark wrote:
> BearItAll <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>> ____/ BearItAll on Tuesday 03 July 2007 12:00 : \____
>>>
>>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> "Show us the Code" campaign silenced
>>>>>
>>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>> | The following day at the place of my employment though was an odd
>>>>> | one. My manager called me into a closed door meeting between myself
>>>>> | and him. His managers and in fact the CIO of the company I was
>>>>> | employed at had it brought to their attention that I had an
>>>>> | “anti-microsoft” site. It was also brought to my attention the
>>>>> | Fortune 1000 company I worked for was a direct partner with
>>>>> | Microsoft.
>>>>> `----
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
http://showusthecode.wordpress.com/2007/07/02/what-happened-to-show-us-the-code/
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=40729
>>>>>
>>>>> So they tried to gag PJ, along with SCO. Now they go for the small
>>>>> guy. Luckily I have a supportive environment.
>>>>
>>>> Hang on a minute, I'm all for free speech but he works for a company
>>>> that has a partnership with Microsoft. Which means that if his blog is
>>>> hurting MS then it is hurting his company too.
>>>>
>>>> Of cause his company would have to investigate to see exactly what he
>>>> was up to. I don't think he has anything to moan about.
>>>
>>> I was getting the impression that his company was very indirectly
>>> related
>
> Yes, But you are mad. Here
>
> ,----
> | >>> | It was also brought to my attention the Fortune 1000 company I
> | >>> | worked for was a direct partner with Microsoft.
> `----
>>>
>>
>> It isn't annonimous, He told them who he was. This man waved his hands in
>> the air and shaouted 'HERE I AM, I DONE IT GOVERNER', well he might as
>> well have done that.
>>
>> He does a crap thing about 'How did my employer find out' then follows it
>> by a distinct lack of knowledge about networks 'Did me plugging my USB
>> device in get noticed?', no mate no one will have saw that, 'Then he
>> ftp'd his file off his company property'.
>>
>> Do you know how much gets flagged in the ftp filter of my logs, have in
>> your mind 210 PCs on this particular site? I'll tell you, a very tiny
>> ammount, the few that are there are regulars that I know about, oddities
>> stand out. He might as well have stuck his arm up in the office and
>> shouted to everyone 'HEY LOOK I'M FTP'ING DATA OUT OF THE COMPANY!!!!'
>>
>> So their IT staff does their daily flick through yesterdays logs, it only
>> takes a couple of minutes, the regular stuff isn't listed, just the
>> odities, oi up, they say, whats this filtered into ftptraf.log?
>>
>> Well I can tell you what it is, it's the source, the destination and what
>> was passed, the date the time and even the file name.
>>
>> So you do a quick look and in moments you have the name of the PC (ok, I
>> admit this bit doesn't pick up the dns, I'm not perfect). You look at the
>> destination, does it have a domain name, what sort of site is it, you
>> have the man's user name (this is ftp matey, of cause we have the user
>> name). So if it's a group site you can still get to his pages or profile.
>>
>> This man gave them all of the information necessary to find who he was
>> and what he was up to.
>>
>> He no doubt had signed two contracts at work either of which could see
>> him out of the company via the nearest winner. His general contract to do
>> with what he wrote in his blog and another to do with his use of company
>> property. He broke both.
>>
>> What was his other blog site about then, let me guess, he was claiming to
>> be an expert on computers? Go on, am I right or what.
>
> And your page and a half on how logs work was what exactly?
More than you added to the thread.
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