From Leo's mailbag:
> From: A Computer User
> Sent: May 13, 2007
> To: Ask Leo!
> Subject: can employer monitor flash based chat
>
> Leo,
> Can an company (employer's) data monitor (that monitors all things
> coming in and going out) see what's going on in a flash-based chatroom?
> If a particular setup is geared towards automatically blocking chats
> (especially well-known applications such as Java) but somehow there's a
> loophole that allows flash-based chat to be used, does this mean the
> setup does NOT recognize the flash-based program as a chatroom but
> rather as a flash movie application? Would data monitoring eventually
> be able to identify the program as a chat?
I'm fairly certain that data monitoring could be analyzed to
figure out what's going on.
Thanks for asking,
Leo
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