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I mean, yeah. If you ran your company's mail server it was trivial to read everyone's mail, for example. The reason you didn't is the same reason you don't do t

by rconti 8y ago

I mean, yeah. If you ran your company's mail server it was trivial to read everyone's mail, for example. The reason you didn't is the same reason you don't do the snooping you could do today -- it's too boring. However, automated data collection has gotten far more advanced.

hermitdev 8y ago
> it's too boring. I don't know about that...I once had a compliance officer at a hedge fund I used to work at tell me to my face that any time he was bored, he'd open up my chat logs and follow the links. Most of the links were technical, some were memes, a few slightly unsavory variety (nothing nearly as bad as what floats around on a trading desk, though).