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Re: If you're on LinkedIn, and you use a smart phone...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Sun Oct 27 14:20:30 2013

Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 14:19:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jimmy Hess" <mysidia@gmail.com>

> This could be a useful proactive countermeasure against the UIT
> (Unintentional Insider Threat); of employees inappropriately entering
> corporate e-mail credentials into a known third party service with
> outside of organizational control.

Alas, it can't.  Using it against LI would work, cause you have a hope of 
knowing what address space their proxies are in.

You can't do that generically, unless you somehow whitelist the IPs your
users will be validly coming from, or figure out a way to determine what
client is connecting.

Cheers,
-- jra
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