privacy

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

Many companies do look closely at people's Internet usage. During a previuous contract at a 
certain defense contractor, I know one Unix admin who was fired based on his use of the Internet. 
Even when one ran telnet, the telnet proxy came up with a warning that this was to be used for 
company business only.....

Additionally, I was supposed to be writing device drivers. I was denied root privs on the 
workstation I was using to write the device drivers (as were employees). After 6 weeks of 
haranguing the IT people, they relented, but then went to security. The rule was that I could have 
root priv, but only when an emplyee was watching my keystrokes. 
I left at the end of my contract eventhough this could have been a long term deal wich also paid 
relatively well. Too restrictive and too much crap. Another company which also did government 
contracts complained about my email volumes, since I did get a lot of bounces from majordomo. 
On 10 Dec 2001 at 9:39, Adam Russell wrote:

> Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 10:05:56 -0500 (EST)
> >From: "Anthony J. Gabrielson"  <agabriel at home.tzo.org> 
> >To: Dan Geer  <geer at world.std.com> 
> >Cc: discuss at blu.org
> >Subject: Re: privacy - 
> 
> >I expect it at work - that doesn't bother me.  My home home machine >w\o
> >knowing it, would bother me. 
>      Errrr.......where exactly do you work? I for one would be pretty surprised if *my* employer were log my every keystroke. Then again, I don't work with money or nuclear secrets. But even so, I would be willing to bet on more clever checks to my honesty than blindly recording *everything* I 
would do.
> 
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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Associate Director
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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