[plug] schoolboys

[Leon Brooks]

Lindsay Allen wrote:
> At a school I support we have a problem.  One or two students are behaving
> in as "inappropriate" manner by sending forged email and I want to find
> out who they are.

> They use Netscape and Hotmail to send messages so outgoing mail can not be
> monitored directly.  I suspect that Netscape encripts mail which will make
> the job almost impossible short of having a trojan at the desktop.  Is
> this correct?  If, not any ideas on how to capture text on its way out?

Run a transparent proxy or lock the Netscape instances on to a specific
proxy and compare hits in the proxy log containing the parts that
identify submission of a "compose" in hotmail with sent dates on the
email messages (remember to allow for US timezones).