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The Enemy Within the Firewall

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the sowing-dissent-and-distrust-in-the-workplace dept.

Mel Tom writes to tell us The Age is reporting that many businesses are now considering employees a much bigger threat to security than most external threats. From the article: "With email and instant messaging proving increasingly popular and devices such as laptop computers, mobile phones and USB storage devices more commonplace in the office, the opportunities for workplace crime are growing."

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  1. Well, many are. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Well, many computer users at work *are* criminals.


    I'd venture to say that most windows users stolen software from work where they were given access to the right disks/installers. That's not their copy of Photoshop or Visual Studio at home - it's pirated from work. Funny thing, though... I don't see this kind of behavior from many F/OSS users.


    So yes, I'd say that employee theft is very real among the IT crowd and the article is totally right.


    Sadly, many of these guys use sad excueses (well, I was going to use it for work anyway; so that makes it OK for me to violate the license terms) - and don't even admit that they're criminals.