I would not and could not access this site or any similar one at my workplace.
I use a separate web browser for naughty stuff so that any history doesn't show up if someone else uses my laptop.
I'm always surprised when anyone says they access this place from their work. But then the filters at my place are sooooo strict you can't even access .
Oh and, how embarrassing, our filters take out any naughty/vaguely salacious words and quarantine emails if they have them in... I had to go and ring the central IT people to get an email I had sent myself from home unblocked. To this day I have no idea what word triggered the ban... but it was a bit funny having to ask for my own content to be unlocked!
my company blocks the majority of web-sites. Their internet security is crap actually, based on panic and ignorance. Really emebarrassing for what claims to be a blue-chip company but there you go. Internet usage is open to monitoring - basically time spent. But they can find out what sites you've been on. Mostly for data/intellectual property protection but also porn access.
People have been sacked - on the spot - for accessing porn. But that is pretty well impossible now anyway.
I don't think anyone can assume info in the Internet is 'private'. All it takes is the phrase 'national security' and every post, email, image can be accessed and inspected.
Seems lots of dodgy mails going round at the mo....
nothing malicious just.....fwd from your own mail box
best thing just dont open them .
Lots of guys out there getting very clever so we need to get cleverer......................................
trav..
It may be apocryphal (probably is), but I heard that one local authority stopped getting any emails once it activate dthe 'rude-word' filter on the email system they used. Not a single emial addressed to them got through.
It was Scunthorpe. Took them 6 months to work out what the problem was.
Can you spot their problem?
How far are we the employees protected by the law? Not sure on this one but once in work we had a facilities manager who left with no notice at all. I was in a chain of emails with them at the time and I needed to know if they had had a response from another party. I asked the building manager about access to these emails and they told me that the message direct from the IT department was this "We cannot access this member of staffs emails. To do so would be breaking the law as an infringement of their privacy. The company could be sued if found out"
Maybe it all depends what you sign when you take employment but I would have thought the law was the law.
I have nothing to be ashamed of by being on here.
Whether it is worth the hassle of defending that viewpoint against less liberal employers is a different matter.
a shame to be sure.
Loving the new avatar bloke.
A big outfit I worked with fairly recently had a fantastic IT policy. In essence provided you did nothing illegal you could do anything you wanted on the in house systems. It made a most welcome change.
I am the boss of where I work, so I guess thats ok for me but i am also a libertarian and allow my staff freedom to do what they want, within reason and I have found it allows for a much more flexible working day. We allow for personal calls, we have people who are from europe and allow them to call home if needed, keep open msn on their pc's and use the net for personal use such as booking holidays, checking news, football, facebook etc.
All makes a very dedicated, happy and loyal workforce.
I kinda think 'well, what's the worst that can happen?' It's my company, my family know I'm gay, my boyfriend knows I'm here and if anyone else is on here and sees me then surely they are here for the same thing?
