In a perfect world, trust and respect would be the way to fly. In today's world, where a phone call can cause the cops to raid your house and confiscate your system(s), where graphics can be downloaded to your computer -- in the background, no warning, if you are using some of the 'chat' snit in dozerware -- OR by someone clicking on the wrong button at the wrong time and then going somewhere else, trust doesn't keep you from discovering (if you are lucky) kiddie porn on your HD. It happened to a friend of mine, using ICQ chat or whatever ... he noticed his HDD light blinking when it shouldn't be, and found what was happening; he also found how to stop "permission" for that sort of thing ASAP after it happened.
When I was on a number of additional lists than I follow now, I found that at least half the people used their e-mail at work ... using the resources of the boss's computer/network/investment for non-work purposes. Studies have shown that 30-50% of "work time" can be spent doing non-work surfing and reading/writing. Since the owner of the business/home is both the investor in the hardware & software, and liable for what is done with the system, and what is stored on the system, anyone who doesn't keep a darn firm grip on things -- trust and respect be damned! -- is asking for problems in one way or another. My youngest likes anime and video games; I couldn't understand why one partition wasn't running the way it should ... and then I found over 8mb of graphics in his download folder. I didn't touch it, but I did ask him to clean things up ... which he did. ==== On Fri, 29 Mar 2002 14:43:48 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote: > On Mon, 25 Mar 2002 22:45:12 -0400, L.D. Best wrote: >> If this does what it says it does, it eats drive space like crazy! <G> >> But since others use my system, and will be using the new one with >> dozerwarez on it, I am *very* tempted. >> ----- Forwarded message begin ----- >> Find out what your children, lovers, employees are doing on the Internet > I think that spying on people who I need to be able to trust is > counter-productive and a waste of time. > I would not want my children, employees or intimates looking over > my shoulder, observing my every move. > I think they deserve the same courtesy and respect. > Sam Ewalt > Croswell, Michigan, USA > -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
