Keep the history who surfing internet?

Theera

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Is there stragy for saving log file which keeps the persons'surfing internet?
Assume I 've internet cafe for serving the customers, but I need to keep the history of customers who have used. (if one of them has crimed, I can refer to him) I need to save the log file a least 90 days
 

Theera

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Sandman said:
Is this a requirement in Thailand?
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In Thailand, there are free wifi in restaurants, hotels, cafe shops, and some wheres for the tourists. the government releases the law to do.But there are many shops can't do the following as law. I don't know other countries how they do. I have a few experiences in this technology.
 

aeric

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This sounds funny to me.
The government should work with the ISP or telcos instead, not the Internet cafe.
As I know, there is a diskless technology use in Internet cafes where the OS are loaded into the pc from a centralised server. When the PCs restart or shutdown, all data are cleared. How big storage the shop need to keep for 90 days?
If a criminal wants to use the pc at the Internet cafe, sure he knows he should not leave any evidence.
 

Theera

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Your taught
Your taught is alike mine. But if the shops don't keep the log file, the officers can arrest him or them whom are co-operated with the theif.
 

aeric

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I think it is very difficult. I guess the police is not IT savvy to know the challenges.
Shop should keep CCTV footage but browser logs are easily cleared. A user can use incognito or private browsing mode.
 

Sandman

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It's not extremely difficult to gather logs even if the user clear the logs or use incognito mode. You just do it on the network level, or a proxy. Typically you wouldn't get the details about the requests and the payload from the response (because it's encrypted using https), but if you require going through a proxy to reach the internet, then you could log it all. (It's been ages since I worked in this field so I might be wrong on some details here and there.) Then it's just a matter of knowing who your customer actually is. It sounds like a difficult sell to require customers to show a valid ID to be able to pay for their computer time.

Overall it sounds like a business that I wouldn't go into: overly complicated, not very interesting for the customer, and little to no profit.
 

josejad

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There are likely to be legal issues that apply, such as data protection, or that you have to inform customers that their activity is going to be recorded. I don't think it is legal to collect such data without the user's consent.
 
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Alex_197

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Pretty easy - install a keylogger on each computer i the Internet café and store the data in a log.
 
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Alex_197

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Theera said:
Your taught

Your taught is alike mine. But if the shops don't keep the log file, the officers can arrest him or them whom are co-operated with the theif.
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the officers can arrest him - this is a room for corruption
 
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AHilton

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Look into pi-hole or something like it. You *might* have to go to the extreme of having one per computer but it's a cheap, easily-built system.
 
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