Chiangmai

Looking  for a long term solution ?

Face and  solve THE PROBLEM  by looking for a trustfull admin !!!

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In such problem, with Lotus Notes, everything will be under control of your admin in any way (even your own connection password, mails and stored datas).

If your admin  is a expert wrongdoer, he will do things  in the way that you will never get any evidence to prove his wrongdoings -  

As for any alternative technical solution, your administrator will be involved in the process. On the contrary,  your admin will suspect about it.

Same remark if attempting to find the evidence of his wrongdoing by hiring a expert (James Bond 008 ?) .

Concisely, technical alternative is NOT a good solution in your case.  (your Lotus Notes system is working well; Lotus notes is a VERY GOOD and safe solution with many tools available for secure encrypted data exchange and management  - and you are able to find easely experienced people available in Bangkok)

Dont spent any money for any alternative solution (mail server, Unix server, DMZ, Firewall  etc.)

Face and  solve THE PROBLEM  by looking for a trustfull admin !!!

While waiting, I suggest you to find somebody as an "admin assistant"  to share his knowledge of the system step by step as Lotus Notes is very common everywhere.

And dont' forget to improve the basic security (office door locker ?, garbage paper ?,  safe for confidential documents ?  aso..)

Warmest regards

Martin

French Computer engineer (system install - configuration - maintenance - tuning - network - advise - hardware / software  ...)

resident in ChiangMai

is looking for other computer skilled people  to  exchange information

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further commercial partnership or cooperation  to be discussed

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sorry for not writing  fluent english   (i am french!)

as computer engineer there is wery few solution to your problem -  

1)  as you probably  have a local network with  several computer, you need somebody to administrate your system, make maintenance also  -  and his person will automatically have admin right  to the network  and to your computer

-  so in any case this person will be able to spy any file

if you do not trust your administrator,  look for a new one

the only solution of course is

--  retrict the number of person with administrative right

--  make the safety policy  (who have admin rigth - account name - password )  by writing    and check every month that the policy is operative

--  ask your (trustfull)  administrator to have record of login file (name of person, date, which file hasbeen accessed etc..) and request a writing report every month

in any case of spying - you will have to show some evidence to the spy or the wrongdoer

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if you believe that you can not trust any network administrator,   you need to have a solution you may administrate yourself  with a minimum of computer skill

one solution should be

1) have a independant  laptop

2) open a special personal mail  account - completely independant from your Lotus notes network  

(CS-loxinfo-or any other  account for example -   but not hotmail or yahoo )

3) configure your laptop to access to this account directly

4) take care of this laptop  (account login with password, admin account of your laptop, )  and periodically  save your confidential information on CD  - and delete the information  from your laptop

5) connect just for dowloading the message

thern disconnect and work   then reconnect to send reply

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Sincerely, the true solution is to  find a trustfull computer administrator  - and to implement clear safety procedure with monthly report  -

Martin

[email protected]