Re: At one of our competitors .......
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Re: At one of our competitors .......

From: Triffid <triffid@nebula.net>
Date: Tue Nov 22 2005 - 02:38:14 CET

Owl Jolsen wrote:

> We are covering the Trophee Bompard figure skating competition this week,
> and on one of our competitors Web sites, someone is logging on, from work,
> in a way where her boss has no CLUE as to what she is doing.
> I talked to someone at Figure Skating Universe, one of our competitors in
> online sports coverage, and this one woman is using an encrypted anonymising
> service to log on to Figure Skating Universe, and her boss has NO CLUE that
> she is logged on to Figure Skating Universe all day. The admins at her
> workplace knows that she has a 128-but encrypted VPN tunnel, over ports 80
> and/or 443, to an anonymising service, but they have NO CLUE that she is
> logged on to a figure skating discussion board all day. She has put one
> over on the admins at her workplace.

The admins know her traffic is not business related, but have not
blocked it. Ergo, they are collecting evidence in preparation for
termination with cause.

Triffid

> Anyone reading this could have somone at your workplace, logged onto
> Figure Skating Universe, right now, and you would never know what she is
> up to, if she just happens to be working in one of your shops. This being
> an Olympic season, the real SERIOUS ice skating fans will do ANYTHING to
> keep up with the latest results at competitions. This is why at OUR service,
> my engineers are continually develtoping countermeasures for every measure
> that admins try and use to block us. Services like Anonymous Demonic Media
> (our service), Icecalc, Widge-Data, MediaZone, PPLive, Glacier Omnimedia,
> Eurosport, and others, were designed with the serious sports fan in mind.
Received on Sat Dec 3 04:17:47 2005