tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8315762734312621987.post7464484348857158164..comments2023-09-29T13:29:43.787+02:00Comments on the Lifestream chronicles: Course Discussion: Snooping BossesYeonnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18136059777182142884noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8315762734312621987.post-64451681845646686042009-09-25T22:57:42.308+02:002009-09-25T22:57:42.308+02:00Heh, my English neighbour has put a piece of tape ...Heh, my English neighbour has put a piece of tape over the built-in web camera in his laptop "basically because of 1984"Kathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05897976791431176573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8315762734312621987.post-40326210822639039822009-09-23T13:31:03.400+02:002009-09-23T13:31:03.400+02:00In all fairness though, Wikipedia is probably the ...In all fairness though, Wikipedia is probably the worst place ever to field your political views, since its an 'opensource' article-platform. Anyone can edit stuff there.<br /><br />Wikipedia is also a service hosted on someones private server, which means they have every right to log IP's of both visitors and contributors (and believe me, they do). Actually I think I read somewhere that an IP address is not considered personal, as long as its not linked to other personal data.<br />As for the government, and most firms, they probably have only a couple static outside IP's that are translated (NAT'ed) to their local VLAN (like 192.x.x.x or 10.x.x.x are good examples of) and<br />to trace something like that would mean to go through local firewall/proxy logs. Even then you're pretty much screwed if the firm uses DHCP with a short lease time, if you wanna find you exactly what PC the articles were changed on =)<br /><br />My conclusion to a long "geeky" mail, its more secure to do evil internet stuff @ work than @ home ;)Alexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02247534407956709995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8315762734312621987.post-75086147072094821822009-09-23T09:20:12.467+02:002009-09-23T09:20:12.467+02:00Privacy laws in Sweden have always been in conflic...Privacy laws in Sweden have always been in conflict with the principle of publicity (offentlighetsprincipen). This week the news has been talking about how they have found out that someone has been changing some politicians' articles on wikipedia. Facts like previous involvement with the extreme right and wild parties, and indeed drug use, has been erased. So how did they discover this? Did they trace the IP number? That would indicate that the IP numbers of the Swedish government are public, which I find kind of... naive.<br /><br />Ps. Check out these two courses at Högskolan Dalarna: <a href="http://www.du.se/sv/Utbildning/Kurser-A-O/Kursplan/?kod=DT1017" rel="nofollow">DT1017</a> and <a href="http://www.du.se/sv/Utbildning/Kurser-A-O/Kursplan/?kod=DT3007" rel="nofollow">DT3007</a>Kathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05897976791431176573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8315762734312621987.post-76837000696058745672009-09-20T04:24:46.692+02:002009-09-20T04:24:46.692+02:00This is interesting, monitoring is a direct confli...This is interesting, monitoring is a direct conflict with the "victim"s (I say victim, cause I'm against monitoring and it suits my description of it all) privacy and you can really see the differences between US and the rest of the world in this. <br />Here in Europe, monitoring (emails, internet usage, phoneusage etc) without proper information beforehand is actually against the european court of human rights. Most countries in Europe has their own privacy laws to reflect this.<br /><br />I know here in Norway, privacy and especially computer security & privacy is taken very seriously.<br />We have our own department for computer privacy, which creates rules that every employer has to follow.<br /><br />Since I work with computer science at government level, I know alot about this...We have all the means to access employees mail, internet history, file history etc, but if we use any of these means, we're legally "screwed". (Though its a nice way to update your mp3 collection =p )<br /><br />I think alot of this is very "black & white". Lets say I get the job done in 50% of the time my colleague would, but I also spend some of the time reading the news online, or doing non-work stuff (like reading a blog). Does this make me a worse employee than my colleague?<br />Ultimately we should be evaluated on getting the job done, not the process itself, provided you at least made an effort.<br /><br />Of course its a problem if an employee slacks off 100%, but that would also be reflected in his work (or lack of), not in some snoopy program that shows how much he/she spent on YouTube.<br /><br />Gawd what a long post this was, sry =) Oh and my phone is both work and private xDAlexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02247534407956709995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8315762734312621987.post-19597330513910434252009-09-17T23:25:11.048+02:002009-09-17T23:25:11.048+02:00Yeah this is what I meant about old problems and n...Yeah this is what I meant about old problems and new technology; the boss being able to take a joke and so on. And if you have a work phone and a private phone, and the work one is monitored, it makes perfect sense right? Too many people use their work phones for both.Yeonnihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18136059777182142884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8315762734312621987.post-66794490481832564372009-09-17T17:56:48.812+02:002009-09-17T17:56:48.812+02:00The situation is really quite different in America...The situation is really quite different in America than in Sweden. In the US, your rights to privacy very much end after you go outside your own house, while they are ridiculously well-respected as long as you are inside.<br /><br />When you're using the company's stuff, you're "on their property" and hence, by American reasoning, they have as much right to monitor you as you have a right to monitor a complete stranger in your house. Which, you know, kind of makes sense.<br /><br />But it's still scary.Riklurthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08615536940608922069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8315762734312621987.post-16445415946323221102009-09-17T17:47:33.308+02:002009-09-17T17:47:33.308+02:00First of all, this whole thing is A LOT less scary...First of all, this whole thing is A LOT less scary in Sweden, where catching an employee surfing porn at work is not a valid reason for giving him the sack.<br /><br />When it comes to monitoring what you do on the internet, it depends on the company. A small company with, say, 10 employees will most likely not bother. They do not have the time or resources to read your e-mail. They might sift for child pornography, but that's it.<br /><br />When it comes to bigger companies, I have a personal experience. ABB are very clear about what they are doing. For every piece of "legally important information" that you receive, you will sign an official document saying that you have read that piece of information.<br /><br />Personally, I think that there is a very clear line that defines what is and isn't the bosses business. Monitoring a cellphone is perhaps reasonable if you run a security company, but otherwise I think it is going too far.<br /><br />Of course, anyone with some knowledge of technology might be smart enough to leave his company phone at home, and forward the calls to his private one.<br /><br />And a manager or CEO is expected to be able to take a joke or two on his behalf. Once again this is not a problem in Sweden. But I can definitely see some good applications of these possibilities though. Proving that someone is being sexually harassed, for example. Oh, my comment got way too long, sry!Kathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05897976791431176573noreply@blogger.com