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If employees have access to secure external sites (SSL over HTTP) such as banking or even benefit management sites, then there's no way to block them from shipping data out without review.

For instance:
The HTTPS protocol uses HTTP to initiate a secure session (as in, designed to be end-to-end secure against man-in-the-middle attacks by, for instance, the proxy). That SSL session is the same as the ssh and sftp session types and can't be told from them, so it can be used to send just about anything out. This isn't rocket science; there are readily-available tools to do just this.

Bottom line: you can either trust your employees with the data that you let them see or not. If they decide to schlep data out with them, they will.
Posted by: Yagotta B. Kidding   Posted on: 09/28/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Let's just...  BitTwiddler | 09/28/04
You'd have to shut down Internet access also ...  worknman | 09/28/04
Exactly  alterego_z | 09/28/04
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Idiot post  quietLee | 09/28/04
PKB  Yagotta B. Kidding | 09/28/04
???  SC-man | 09/29/04
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Agreed  Pinkerton | 09/29/04
Step 1- Disable USB in BIOS. Step 2-Password protect BIOS  Xunil_Sierutuf | 09/28/04
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and ....  V Sanders | 09/28/04
Poetic Justice  Yagotta B. Kidding | 09/28/04
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Corkscrew  Yagotta B. Kidding | 09/28/04
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