Accessing private information

MKlinke mklinke at axsi.com
Sun Jun 6 13:21:12 UTC 2004


On Sunday 06 June 2004 01:10, Rudolf A wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> We have Linux RedHat 9 server (Iptables, NAT, PROXY, etc), which
> serves as a router for our network.
>
> Through that server, network users are chatting by MSN, Yahoo
> Messenger, ICQ etc... The question is the following.
>
> Is it possibility for Linux Administrator, to access to their chat
> text, to read that information of chatting on the server?.
>
> Thanks.
> Rudolf

Yes, as Ed mentioned, and in addition to monitoring directly on the 
router all network traffic can also be monitored by any of several 
intrusion detection systems (snort, for example) that will, by 
default, flag this type of traffic as potentially dangerous and log 
all associated traffic to its database for review by the 
administrator in handy easy-to-read format.

Regards,  Mike Klinke





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