> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Girish Venkatachalam > <girishvenkatacha...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Rule? What rule? Why should you care about it? You can get around >> every such rule if you are clever and know the big picture. And of >> course you should have access to the right tool and have lot of >> perseverance. > > Stop misleading others. Encouraging someone to break the rules > is immature and irresponsible. > > Organizations don't arbitrarily create rules. They are made because > of 1) govt compliance regulations, 2) IT security policies enforced > by their customers, and 3) industry best practices. > > It may be a prank for you, but breaking company security policies also > harms the entire organization as the company's reputation and business > is at stake. Eg. would you trust your money with a bank that has a poor > security policy?
Good point. To the original poster - please refrain from doing this. You can always go home and check your emails what not. If you want to learn how to hack, please do it on your own infrastructure or get a clearance in writing from your boss to test the corporate network's security. If you are trying to bypass your companies security without written permission, please be forewarned that these sorts of hack attempts are usually logged and it will be very easy to trace the hack back to you. If an hack attempt is detected (especially originating from within the company's network), it can be very expensive for the company to determine if the hack was successful, if any computers have been compromised, what data has been stolen/manipulated etc, to close all loop holes etc.. So you will be in a LOT of trouble if you are seen as the perpetrator and you could easily face jail time and stiff fines. NO ONE is going to be believe you when you say that you went to all that effort to just check email and chat. The assumption will always be that your hack was to steal or manipulate sensitive information and that you may very well have accomplices both within and outside the organization. Regards, Prem _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc