Ioannis Vranos ivranos@freemail.gr wrote:

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I think it is a mgmt thing and not a technical thing. <<

That's the accepted view amongst security professionals, too: use of internet radio, some use of chat/instant messaging, and endless reading of web sites is a time management and supervision problem, not a technical one. It might be a technical issue in places where bandwidth is expensive, or limited (e.g. entire business on an ADSL connection), however. And ultimately, if senior management decides to make a policy banning access via technical means, then junior network and firewall admins don't get to argue the point. ;)

Best,

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