There we go - just where Tads comes in :-))


IM creates 'rampant security risk'
15:33 Wednesday 5th February 2003
Tony Hallett, silicon.com


Some IT managers are concerned that IM can send files that are not virus-checked past corporate firewalls , creating a threat to network security
Instant messaging (IM) is taking off in companies but self-installed consumer versions of software that allows this type of communication are posing a "rampant security risk" on networks.

Already some companies see IM as a time-wasting technology -- as was the case when email, Web access and even the telephone were first put on workers' desks -- but the latest warning, levelled by Blue Coat Systems, is based on three key factors.

The security appliance vendor highlights that IM is used to send files which firewalls don't pick up because they do not pass through corporate email systems; they are not checked for viruses; and they are not logged.

Nigel Hawthorn, Blue Coat's European marketing director, told silicon.com: "We're not against IM but companies must either stop end users installing IM software or, without such a policy, use tools to monitor its use. Both options come down to control."

Gartner analysts have declared 2003 the year when IM will take off and have warned IT managers that if they don't embrace the technology, their staff will do so often outside of the IT department's reach.

IDC has forecast there will be 255m worldwide IM users in the workplace by the end of 2006. However, according to a Blue Coat poll conducted outside train stations in the UK, around 88 percent of corporate IM users now only use the technology to communicate with friends and family.

Flagship providers of IM including AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo! are now gearing up for pushing corporate versions of their software, which pay more attention to recording communications and security.

Steve Boom, senior vice president, Yahoo! Enterprise Solutions, said: "There is no rampant security risk. Users know messages aren't encrypted, for example, and the way forward isn't to control consumer IM but look at integrating it with [a company's] IT."

He said IM can in some cases be at least as secure as email, with systems based on directories, such as those provided by Microsoft or Novell, for authentication purposes.

nope it hasn't escaped my notice and she is behaving as expected.

might she pop to 2p before the next rise or possibly rise up to the resistance on the downtrend?

either way 2p looks likely from a charts and newsflow view if they don't start getting some revenue in. Afterall every GEM drawdown at this levels is very dilutive for existing equity holders.

wish all great success with this one, sorry ainsoph I am too busy to argue with you so let's at least pretend to be online buddies! (or perhaps I should say online biddies!) you choose

RAFLMAO

LOL!

:-))

;-o

nope it hasn't escaped my notice and she is behaving as expected.

might she pop to 2p before the next rise or possibly rise up to the resistance on the downtrend?

either way 2p looks likely from a charts and newsflow view if they don't start getting some revenue in. Afterall every GEM drawdown at these levels is very dilutive for existing equity holders.

wish all great success with this one, sorry ainsoph I am too busy to argue with you so let's at least pretend to be online buddies! (or perhaps I should say online biddies!) you choose

RAFLMAO

LOL!

:-))

;-o

6M buys today.

I guess the shorters are running for cover?


M

looks that way ..... interesting day ahead


ains

Moneylender
Would you mind explaining how 6m buys just widened the spread down?

Perhaps you will give us your take on the days trades Martini?


ains

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ainsoph
Any ideas on the large trades recently and how they all manage mid price or better?
Guru 1 1/4

ainsoph
I don't have a view. I was interested in why Moneylender seemed so sure they were all buys.
Maybe you could explain, as you appeared to agree?

Martini

My initial reaction was that they were buys, as they were different sizes and with different brokers.
However after looking at the trades of the last few days, i have come to the conclusion that they are a roll over.
Short or long, who knows? I know what I think.

Whats your view on them?

M

Moneylender
I would agree that a roll over with a net change to the position of 750k shares seems more plausible.
A short roll over would appear favourite judging by the last few weeks price action and maybe a net closing of the short to reduce the exposure by 750k on the last few days trades could account for the difference in the size of the trades.
I will hang on to my punt from 5.7p and await developments.
Always a sucker for this share - high risk though.

Martini

Your scenario above is running parrallel with my own.
High risk, maybe, but with the potential of very high returns.
I would definately hold on if I were you, even if only for another 3 weeks.
personally I believe next week will be fruitfull. We will see.

M

DYOR

BEWARE!

ainsoph is up to his old tricks again and posting under several nicknames on this thread, he is often having conversations with himself, to convince and trick the novice investor into thinking that there are lots of posters who are bullish on TAD:

Thankfully, due to the 'code of conduct' on this site he cannot bully and abuse those who disagree with him, or spam the threads of shorters who take a different view, like he does on ADVFN, but even they have had enough of him and have removed several of his posts today!

LOL, which ones Gdub?

Gdub
Thanks for the warning.
Do such things go on?
I am shocked!
Does this mean I can't believe everything I see posted on a BB?
Regards
M

As there are only a few posters on this thread I must be either snappy or Gdub ..... hmmmmmmm ..... what a fate ...... I wonder who will get the red card first


Martini

Have you ignored the 750k on the 04/02

I don't agree with moneylender at all - he thinks that Microsoft may be buying - I do not. I have been looking at the trades over the last few weeks and in particular the odd ones from 100k upwards - there are over 60 in the last three weeks. Overall I believe there are substantial active shorts from around the 7/8p level and below. I think some have been closed at a loss and some have been rolled over. I suspect the two trades yesterday were another rollover.


ains

Martini

lol!

Don't be a smart arse, or I'll make Dil talk to you for hours about peanut hugging!
Besides, this is a new site which has probably attracted novice investors from 'Shares mag'. They need to be warned about ains.


ainsoph

Don't get cocky sonny, it's obvious you are trying to ingratiate yourself on this site by creeping around certain posters as if 'butter wouldn't melt'.
Your behaviour on ADVFN is a disgrace and the TAD threads over there resemble a verbal cess pit....and it's your doing! You are the most despised poster in BB history and there are a 1000 posters who'd like to see you get a permanent red card from every BB site.


snappy

'moneylender' is a known ainsoph alias. Plus ADVFN removed several posts by ains on the 'tank' thread today. He continually spams the shorters threads because they dare to disagree with him and they've taken all his money!

I guess we will soon see if the management take their rules seriously or not Gdub



ains