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I know what you downloaded last week
We're talking part one, the one with the hot version of Jennifer Love Hewitt. And oh yeah, that's who you were downloading last week, and we know alllllll about it.A recent study by Cyber-Ark, who asked 300 IT Professionals about the topic of System Admins checking out what you're doing online at work, says that 1 in 3 IT professionals snoop on their co-workers surfing habits and stats.
I mean why not, right...all the info is right there! They're just "protecting the company from harmful usage".
Sheah, right.
IT Professionals download more pr0n than the entire state of Texas.
Even scarier? 47% of those surveyed said that they accessed info about you that had nothing to do with their job.
No wonder most SysAdmins have the password g0d. Oy!
What might be even worse, is that the other 2 in 3 surveyed lied out of fear that someone was snooping on them while they were taking the survey, thus uncovering the fact that they snoop on us. OMS our heads hurt!
SysAdmins, do you snoop? Worker folk, are you snooped upon?
You can hiphopanonymously write a comment here and let us know about it.
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soniiic said 12:44PM on 6-20-2008
I had my own web hosting about 3 yrs ago and ran a little WoW raiding web app on the side. Stupidly this web app didn't encrypt the users' passwords and all could be seen on one page accessible by myself and myself alone. This was incredibly insecure i know, but i didn't even glance long enough to look at which passwords were who's but i did look at what passwords were chosen. some made me laugh and most had numbers in. very interesting :)
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Joe said 1:40PM on 6-20-2008
Aren't WoW passwords required to include a number?
Thrush said 2:04PM on 6-20-2008
I'm an IT professional and I DO NOT snoop on others. There has to be a trust between IT and the end users for things to work correctly and I do not violate that trust. Besides I have enough to do without being nosy about other people's web browsing habits. I really don't care what people are looking at on the web, if they have a surfing problem it will come out on its own eventually.
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Drew Olanoff said 2:06PM on 6-20-2008
Thank you for the honesty, I think you're 2 out of the 3 they surveyed who actually do their work and don't worry about anyone else :)
Hugh Mann said 2:41PM on 6-20-2008
Great... Now I have to change my password!
;)
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julian said 5:55PM on 6-20-2008
oh yeah whenever i go online i feel that there is an IT guy behind me overlooking at all i do
tsk ...
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YeOldie said 4:14PM on 6-20-2008
I am the only IT person for a hundred person firm and I'll tell you that keeps me busy enough considering I run everything from training to all of our domain, email and web systems with everything in between. There have been a couple of times when our HR or President have come to me to ask about specific habits or instances and that is the only reason I have to access anyone elses' data or history. The worst thing is that when they ask for trends, they want six months of data and that comes from a pool of about 400GB of logs. It takes real time to sort through that.
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Darkbhudda said 6:20PM on 6-22-2008
At one of our sister companies there were a few people fired for having porn. Of course it turned out the porn was sent by the IT people who didn't get fired, only got a warning, even though they were using company servers to store the porn.
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Ryan said 8:10PM on 6-22-2008
I got better things to do than snoop - like reading DLS blogs for instance :)
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