No More Unrestricted Internet At Work

Schlemphfer writes: "You can forget about using private email or surfing the web while at work if these bozos have their way. And judging by the Reuters article, it looks like they might. Basically what they're doing is trying to scare senior management into thinking that allowing employees unrestricted use of the net will cripple a company with viruses and lawsuits."

Comments

Not true for everyone

[JoshuaDFranklin]

I'm the guy with the passwords to the routers
connected to the T1 lines.

There are already a few hundred routes in the
tables... who's going to notice everything from
my workstation misses the filtering appliance?
Oh that's right, it's my job to make sure no one
*else* does this, too. ;)

Analogy

[blair1q]

We should shut down employee cafeterias because food can bring harmful bacteria into the company and we might get sued.

--Blair