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Ask Slashdot: Do You Use a Smartphone At Work, Contrary to Policy?

Posted by timothy on from the they'll-never-take-me-alive dept.

Jason McNew writes: I have been in IT since the late '90s, and began a graduate degree in Cyber Security with Penn State two years ago. I have always been interested in how and why users break policies, despite being trained carefully. I have observed the same phenomena even in highly secure government facilities — I watched people take iPhones into highly sensitive government facilities on several occasions. That led me to wonder to what extent the same problem exists in the private sector: Portable Electronic Devices (PEDs) are a huge threat to both security and intellectual property. This question has become the subject of a pilot study I am doing for grad school. So, do you use a smart phone or other PED during work hours, even though you are not supposed to? Please let me know, and I will provide the results in a subsequent submission to Slashdot.

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  1. No! by chinton · · Score: 5, Funny
    Of course not.

    --- Sent from my Verizon Wireless Galaxy S4

    1. Re:No! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      I always obey the decrees of IT. Even when they prevent me from getting work done. IT knows what's bets for me.

      IT is mother IT is father.

    2. Re:No! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      I've never worked at a center where smart phones and the like were Verboten

      You haven't been working in Germany ...


      posting anon because of bad joke

    3. Re:No! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Out of curiosity, what secure locations can you use your smartphone?

      Nice try, Putin.

  2. Nice try, Jason by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Hey Slashdot, do you regularly engage in practices at work that could land you fired or worse? Please, do tell! Please, also post under your real name, preferably a G+ account.