(ILUG) "I fought the scammer... and I won"

sceptre

I got a giggle and an oh yeah out of this.

Steffen Higel gets rid of one Dublin-based 419er

Eating pendrives is probably painful.

nosmo

Yeah, I saw this on the Register this morn. Quite impressive

Cake Fiend

Thought I'd just cross-post my reply to a similar thread on Nets/Coms:

Nice one. We need more admins like this around.

The linked discussion does raise some very important issues for [net café] admins though. The whole privacy thing is a bit of a hairy area for those of us who strive to keep our networks safe from abuse - how much investigation/logging/monitoring is too much? Where's the line between rightfully protecting your network and unethically invading your customers' privacy? It's very hard to find a balance and it's an issue I have much interest in, having collaborated with gardaí on several occasions.

The thread also brings up the issue of cooperation between gardaí and public net access admins. In my personal experience, it's rare that extra information will be volunteered by the police - in any case I have been involved in, I had to ask and pry to get information (sometimes for information that could help my input into the case, sometimes for my own personal curiosity). Information was rarely denied, to be fair, but I still think the police could be more outwardly helpful to the people who are trying to help them. Net café and to a certain extent college admins are in a very good position to catch a lot of dodgy bastards who seek the relative anonymity of a public net access point.

nosmo

Originally posted by Sico
The linked discussion does raise some very important issues for [net café] admins though. The whole privacy thing is a bit of a hairy area for those of us who strive to keep our networks safe from abuse - how much investigation/logging/monitoring is too much? Where's the line between rightfully protecting your network and unethically invading your customers' privacy? It's very hard to find a balance and it's an issue I have much interest in, having collaborated with gardaí on several occasions.

Very good points. Legally, what is the situation as regards session captures and things like that? Could someone leave dsniff running on a PC on the way out and be legally in the clear?

yellum

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=151975

watty

Our Proxy / firewall only allows email from/to our internal Email server (on non-standard SMTP/POP3 ports on inside of firewall to stop folks bypassing the internal Email server, also only permitted from IP of the mail server)

Every Proxy is logged

Every incomming email to system and every outgoing email is archived by mail system

Relaying is blocked BOTH at email server level and at Proxy / Firewall level.


Who was that that muttered "he's parinoid"?


The HTTP proxy also blocks most well known webmail services too.