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Subject:Re: The unconfidentiality of techwr-l From:Goober Writer <gooberwriter -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 27 Oct 2003 07:42:07 -0800 (PST)
> True, but my point was that contrary to our natural
> sense of paranoia,
> most bosses don't have the time or the inclination
> to go about searching
> the net to see what their employees are posting
> about their manager or
> their company (I've been a boss, and I've never
> bothered to do it).
It *does* happen. A friend of mine had it happen to
him a few weeks ago. His boss Googled for his name and
read a whole bunch of his posts to various mailing
lists. Now, nothing came of it because all his posts
were professional, but suffice to say it *does*
happen, and to the good employees as well as the bad.
> OTOH, many companies routinely monitor the traffic
> on their own
> corporate email servers, either to ensure that
> sensitive information
> isn't being disseminated or to detect improper use
> of company resources.
Right. I've had some of my employers question me on
some e-mail before. No biggie, but they thought to
ask.
> So while posting to public forums is
> certainly exposing
> yourself to the potential view of an employer who
> might be inclined
> to go looking for you, using your employer's own
> email system to do
> it is more akin to waving a big red flag and firing
> flares into the air.
Yep. Nice visual. ;)
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