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Do people who do their work in cafés consider the fact that other people can see what they’re working on? I like people watching and sometimes shoulder surfing
by Quinzel 3y ago
Do people who do their work in cafés consider the fact that other people can see what they’re working on?
I like people watching and sometimes shoulder surfing. It’s a curiosity thing. If I can see someone doing work, I will sit somewhere where I can see what they’re doing.
The other day, I was watching someone doing their invoicing. I could see the names addresses and emails of their customers, and how much they were being invoiced and the service they were being invoiced for. If I was trying to be a cyber criminal, I would have a decent amount of info just from that to be able to target some of those people. Perhaps even replicate the invoice, but change the bank account to a different account. I’m not saying that I would actually do that. But, if I can think that up, surely there are people who would also think that up, except act on it.
I don’t know why people think that cafés or other public spaces are good spaces to do work, because people can see what you’re doing. I’m constantly surprised by some of the kinds of work people will carry out in public too. It doesn’t seem a smart thing to do.
- jon-wood 3y agoI sometimes work in coffee shops, but yes I take this into consideration. I’ll usually be working on either something that isn’t sensitive, or writing code where you’d need remarkably good eyesight and attention to work out what I’m actually doing from any distance. I also typically sit with my back to a wall but that’s just because I have crippling ADHD and can’t concentrate with things going on behind me. What really gets me is the people who’ll join video calls from a coffee shop. Not only is it going to reveal a ton of information to anyone nearby it’s just straight up anti-social, no one went to the coffee shop to hear about your quarterly sales goals, Bob.
- Quinzel 3y agoYeah those people are just their own special breed of ignorant twat.
- chaz6 3y agoAt a former job, I was provided with a laptop that had a hot key that enabled a built-in privacy screen, so you had to be pretty much dead on straight to see it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=130bPdQvH3w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=130bPdQvH3w
- Quinzel 3y agoThat is pretty cool! I have a screen I can put over my laptop screen that does the same thing, but I realised that depending on the angle you could still view some stuff on my screen. I never do any work outside of home/work so it doesn’t really matter for me. I would say a surprising number of people do not take measures to ensure their privacy/security when working outside of the home/office.