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The first rule about Fight Club is don't blog about Fight Club
The report (pdf) was conducted for Proofpoint, a company that sells email monitoring software, so it has a vested interest in showing executives that they can't trust their workers. So take these juicy findings with a grain of salt:
- 32.1% of companies surveyed employ staff to read or analyze outbound email.
- 16.9% of companies surveyed had at least one person on staff whose primary job was to monitor outbound email.
- 37% of companies surveyed perform regular audits of outbound email.
- The companies surveyed estimate that 18.9% of outbound email includes content that poses a risk to the company (Keep in mind -- this is what the company's estimate. That's a far cry from saying that 1 in 5 outbound messages could actually bring the company down).
In other words, either companies really do have a lot to worry about, or they overreact to employees' meek efforts to connect in some way with the world outside their cubicles. We'll let you draw your own conclusions.
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
