Jabber help

[John Costello]

Hi Guy!  Hope all is well.

On Fri, 12 May 2006, Jim Hickstein wrote:
> > Thanks for the suggestions, Scott.  Anyone else have thoughts?  I can't 
> > believe y'all don't have an opinion ;^)
> 
> My last outfit ran (and runs) a jabber server from jabber.org, a rather 
> old one.  But it's impossible to enforce its use, so people still send 
> plenty of company-confidential information to each other, and to 
> customers, via "public" IM services.

Internally, you could have the jabber servers act as proxiesw and route 
all IM network traffic to those serves for monitoring.  That is a proposal 
I have heard, but have not seen implemented.

However, once people are outside the office network enforcement becomes 
impossible--what stops a user from logging into IM on a home computer?  
Nothing.

 > All you can do is make a place for the proper behavior, set a 
policy, 
> and then rely on non-technical means to enforce it (i.e. management).
>
> For myself, I don't even tell Yahoo, MSN, AOL, etc., about my very 
> existence, if I can possibly help it.  Have you seen the news lately?
> 

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