In 100% agreement. Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org
> On Apr 1, 2014, at 5:27 PM, Bob Sneidar <bobsnei...@iotecdigital.com> wrote: > > To play the Devil’s advocate so to speak, we had people downloading and > installing wares and peer to peer software, and then sharing illegal copies > of movies with others out of our high speed corporate network. We told them > not to. Over and over again. They kept doing it anyway. This got found out, > of course, since there are bots looking for people doing this very thing. > > Now the producers of said pirated copyrighted material did not approach the > people doing it. They did not approach the company I was working for. They > approached the ISP and DEMANDED that the ISP block all outbound and inbound > traffic from us! Thankfully, the ISP was more sensible than that, and alerted > us that we had to find and resolve the issue, prove we had done so, then > submit our findings, after which they would alert the concerned party. > > All that to say this: Users have absolutely NO COMPUNCTION WHATSOEVER about > jeopardizing the corporate network using the companies own equipment. > Therefore, it remains the companies responsibility and obligation to protect > itself by monitoring what is going into and out of computers that belong to > the company. Period. > > We did after all, have each employee sign an Acceptable Use policy telling > them that any and all information stored on the companies computers was > subject to viewing by authorized personnel. Not only that, but our content > management software would log attempts to access blacklisted websites, so > let’s not pretend this is not happening ALL THE TIME. Data is being collected > on all of us everywhere, not just by the companies we work for, but by our > ISP’s, our mail providers, our search engines and our frigging location > services on our cell phones for crying out loud. And that is our PERSONAL > computers! > > I think being upset about this is much ado about nothing. > > Bob > > >> On Mar 28, 2014, at 14:41 , Richard Miller <w...@together.net> wrote: >> >> Fascinating responses here. Quite a spin folks are putting on my message >> without even asking first. >> >> The program is looking for signs of system failure on the Mac, before drives >> crash or other problems get out of hand. >> >> Nothing to do with the user. >> >> >> >>> On 3/28/14 5:23 PM, stephen barncard wrote: >>> secret collection is the devil. >>> >>> sqb >>> >>> *--* >>> *Stephen Barncard - San Francisco Ca. USA - Deeds Not Words* >>> >>> >>>> On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 2:17 PM, John Dixon <dixo...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote: >>>> >>>> Not nice...:-( >>>> >>>> >>>>> Richard Miller <w...@together.net> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I have a Mac-only LC program that runs invisibly in the background. This >>>> is >>>>> used in a corporate environment, so the actual user of the Mac computer >>>> will >>>>> not likely even know it is running. It is designed to collect certain >>>> data >>>>> and send it to management. >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> use-livecode mailing list >>>> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >>>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >>>> subscription preferences: >>>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >>> _______________________________________________ >>> use-livecode mailing list >>> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >>> subscription preferences: >>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
