Since I’m not a statistician I’m not really sure how reliable are the results of this survey but supposedly most people are being spied upon at work. According to this research one third of IT “professionals” secretly monitor their co-workers (quotes around the word professionals for the obvious reasons). As each of the miscreants snoops on at least a few people the chance of being under this illegal supervision is rather high.
That’s rather shocking to me. I know that as a sysadmin you have access to passwords and privileged accounts but you’re given them for a very specific purpose not just for your amusement. It’s like your GP telling everybody about your sickness.
Since it looks like avoiding the bad sysadmins is going to be difficult, you have to defend yourself. The only sure defense in this case is not to use the computer at work for anything you’d prefer to remain private. You just can’t be sure otherwise. In many organizations IT staff who left may still have access to the company’s network. This increases your exposure even more. Like for example in this organization.
By the way, the research is already over a year old but it looks like it just got picked up by MSNBC and the blogosphere.
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