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Is Your Boss Spying on You? Inside New Workplace Surveillance
Popular Mechanics ^
| September 20, 2007
| Glenn Derene
Posted on 09/20/2007 6:13:50 AM PDT by decimon
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Via Instapundit.
I guess my problem with this is that it is no better than the people using it. How would the people you work for use this?
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posted on
09/20/2007 6:13:51 AM PDT
by
decimon
To: decimon
You may think the data is yours, but the equipment is theirs, and employers reserve the right to micromanage all the bits and packets on their networks, computers and mobile devices. Theres no such thing as unreasonable search and seizure when it comes to company property, and the surveillance tools used by IT departments are getting stealthier and more powerfuland more heavily funded each yearAnybody that's using a company PC and thinks that they're not being monitored should probably think again. If you're at work (for a company with a decent sized IT department) and on FR right now, chances are your employer is aware of it. Food for thought.
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posted on
09/20/2007 6:19:37 AM PDT
by
dawn53
To: decimon
I had a manager use her access to private info to advance her career. She used it to back stab competitors and get people she didn't like fired. That’s the problem with this sort of thing....
To: decimon
"Jeffrey W. Keener is a corporate keymaster ..."Is this him?
To: StolarStorm
I had a manager use her access to private info to advance her career. She used it to back stab competitors and get people she didn't like fired. Thats the problem with this sort of thing....That rings too true. All is fair.
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posted on
09/20/2007 6:22:23 AM PDT
by
decimon
To: robertpaulsen
There’s a guy who’s seen too much.
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posted on
09/20/2007 6:24:08 AM PDT
by
decimon
To: dawn53
IT department) and on FR right now, chances are your employer is aware of it. Food for thought. I'm sure they are. Periodically IT locks out a bunch of web sites including FR. It usually takes no more than 2 hours for FR to get unlocked. I can only conclude that someone in the executive management likes FR and scalds the butts of the internet Cary Nations in IT.
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posted on
09/20/2007 6:27:08 AM PDT
by
from occupied ga
(Your most dangerous enemy is your own government, Benito Guilinni a short man in search of a balcony)
To: decimon
Hey FRiends...It’s a WORK computer.
Don’t surf FR, popular mechanics, naughty cheerleaders, the stock market, NASCAR or anything else your boss might object to.
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posted on
09/20/2007 6:32:45 AM PDT
by
Drango
(A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
To: Drango
Dont surf FR, popular mechanics, naughty cheerleaders, the stock market, NASCAR or anything else your boss might object to.You're...uhh...not on the job right now, are you?
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posted on
09/20/2007 6:35:36 AM PDT
by
decimon
To: decimon
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posted on
09/20/2007 6:37:56 AM PDT
by
Drango
(A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
To: Drango
I AM the boss!So much for that leadership by example stuff. :-)
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posted on
09/20/2007 6:40:30 AM PDT
by
decimon
To: Drango
What happens if one uses a corporate laptop from home, connecting to the web via personal high-speed connection. Is there software that monitors this as well?
To: Drango
Then write yourself up. ;-)
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posted on
09/20/2007 6:43:32 AM PDT
by
300magnum
(God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it. D.Webster)
To: dawn53
If you're at work (for a company with a decent sized IT department) and on FR right now, chances are your employer is aware of it. Yup. I kept having trouble with our IT people blocking me from conservative websites. If I went to Rush everyday, suddenly it would be blocked. Same with Laura Ingraham website. It never happened with FR though. I think they just were'nt saavy enough to know what it was. I experimented and went to Air America for a few days. Nothing happened. It was easy to tell that it was personal. This was just lunchtime surfing, mind you. I resolved the issue by bringing my own laptop from home.
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posted on
09/20/2007 6:51:46 AM PDT
by
GOP_Proud
(Dream Act: What part of "no" do you not get?)
To: Zuben Elgenubi
They can. Certainly the browser cache and other traces are left even if you think you've cleaned the cache, etc.
At my last company, we used VPN access, so you couldn't use your "personal" Net connection even if you wanted to. Regardless of where you were, you had to log onto VPN, then hook up to the Net via their servers.
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posted on
09/20/2007 6:54:49 AM PDT
by
OCCASparky
(Steely-Eyed Killer of the Deep)
To: Drango
I AM the boss!Get back to work.
Or yer fired.
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posted on
09/20/2007 6:57:36 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(Why isn’t this in Breaking News????)
To: Lazamataz
“They can’t trace you, Laz, you have Zone Alarm!”
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posted on
09/20/2007 7:01:08 AM PDT
by
decimon
To: decimon
Heh. I work for a fairly small company (government contractor). Some time back, the IT guys came by my office and installed some ‘updates’ to my Win2k dell laptop. Made it all but unusable. I bought a new hard drive for it, and installed Linux on it. A couple of weeks later one of the IT guys came by my office again, and said “something’s wrong with your computer...we can’t access it from the network”. I told him what I’d done, and he just shrugged his shoulders and left. I haven’t heard anything more from them, and it’s been several months.
To: shorty_harris
I work for a fairly small company (government contractor).Be on the lookout for Suburbans.
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posted on
09/20/2007 7:03:44 AM PDT
by
decimon
To: decimon
Trust and respect is a two way deal, if they treat employees like potential criminals, businesses may get back what they dish out.
Businesses have a right to watch out for malicious intrusions from outside their networks and to watch out for disloyal employees sending proprietary information to outside competitors. That right should be exercised in a balanced manner that does not unduly intrude on other employees who do their jobs well and browse the Internet on breaks for news or harmless entertainment.
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posted on
09/20/2007 7:15:52 AM PDT
by
RicocheT
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