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I was just talking to a coworker yesterday and at his previous job part of his security was to go out to the employee parking lot and dump thumbdrives, if they
by siffland 7y ago
I was just talking to a coworker yesterday and at his previous job part of his security was to go out to the employee parking lot and dump thumbdrives, if they were plugged into the corporate network they would send a message to the security department on the terminal and user account. I actually said to him, no one would be stupid enough to do that, he told me they did this monthly and at least 2 to 3 people would get caught.
He said employees had training and still failed. No one got fired for it though.
- alkonaut 7y agoIt’s like people don’t have (private) computers anymore. If you get caught doing that, or watching animal porn on your company laptop or whatever, the problem isn’t poor IT training, the problem is that you should have bought your own computer! How are people so eager to look at the thumb drive that they can’t wait until they get home?
- Scoundreller 7y agoI could only imagine how bad things would be if most people didn’t have their own smartphones. I think having a “guest” wifi discourages employees from using visiting random streaming websites on their work computers.