I lied to the C-levels at a previous company about how hard it would be to monitor and log the instant messaging traffic of everyone at the office. Everyone was

I lied to the C-levels at a previous company about how hard it would be to monitor and log the instant messaging traffic of everyone at the office. Everyone was using AIM and there was no encryption, so it would have been trivially easy (I verified this, which was scary). I then lied and told the CFO and CEO that it would be prohibitively hard to do and they dropped it. :P