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1 In 3 Sysadmins Snoop On Colleagues
klubar writes "According to a a recent survey, one in three IT staff snoops on colleagues. U.S. information security company Cyber-Ark surveyed 300 senior IT professionals, and found that one-third admitted to secretly snooping, while 47 percent said they had accessed information that was not relevant to their role. Makes you wonder about the other 2 out of 3. Did they lie on the survey or really don't snoop?"
They probably have a life. It's pretty pathetic to have to get one's jollies snooping on others rather than actually doing something.
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According to that survey, 2 out of 3 sysadmins realize that spying in a CLI (career limiting move) if they get caught. That, and the whole ethics and honour thing, are why we are able to manage the confidential data without snooping.
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Someone needs to explain to them about using ssh-keygen to allow secure, password-less logins, and how write Expect scripts. That's how I handle changing the root passwords on the supercomputers that I manage (which undoubtedly have more nodes than that company has servers).
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They don't have access to the private keys of every server. Their public key is in their home directory on every server.
You just delete their account, or their authorized_keys file.
To be exact, a sample of 300 should have a sampling error of around 5.8% -- a reasonable accuracy. A sample of 40 should have a sampling error of around 15.7% -- maybe suggestive of general tendencies, but if this were the sampling error in this survey we'd have a small but significant possibility that the actual ratio is close to 1:1. These numbers assume the sample is truly random.
when polling organizations like Gallup conduct a survey, their sample sizes are often right around 1,000, and they are modeling the entire population of the US
Size of the population being sampled isn't much of a factor, really, unless the sample size is approaching the population size. I think there are way more than 300 sys admins, so population size doesn't play a role here.
more heterogeneous than the population of admins
It seems to me that that carries a prior assumption about the thing you are trying to measure, i.e., that you believe this characteristic correlates with factors that are known to be fairly homogeneous in the population of sys admins. That may be the case, but it would require independent confirmation if you want to base an argument on that correlation.
THIS! These people are obviously not busy enough, I have a multi-year backlog of backend projects let alone the stuff that the business adds on a quarterly basis.
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It doesn't apply to private companies.
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I'm busy enough keeping our systems running and taking care of whatever issues our clients come up with. I don't have time to go snooping around for the fun of it.
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