When I worked for DEC, and my family as well, we were all active with DEC and The United Way. DEC was a great company to work with, IMHO, until they started selling off the profitable divisions to try and stay afloat...the sale of Disk Drive Manufacturing to Quantum was heartbreaking for a lot of us. Things kinda went down hill from there, and I left long before Compaq bought them, but from my Sister In Law's comments, Compaq is almost as good as DEC was.
Wow, this'll be neat to see! We don't here a lot about Linux being used by the Gov't., except for the few obvious ones in the last year or so...I forget, but wasn't it an army web server or something? Anyway, NSA has the bucks to spend on a project like this...if they stay behind it. So, will they release this Secure Distribution under the GPL?;-)
Yes, we use this model for Mobile Date Terminals at the Pueblo, Colorado Police Department. Running Win95B (yech) with a terminal program by Allinson-Ross to log in to the old Unisys Mainframe, and via secure fiber to the Colorado Criminal Information Computers. Transmission is via a radio modem, seriously encrypted (of course) so the connection is ssslllooooww. But that notebook is DAMN tough. You can spill coffee all over it, and it keeps on tickin! --Officer Jeff Pettorino, Pueblo PD
It sounds like company policy is pretty straightforward. Now, it depends on how this policy is given to the employee...if there is a rule book somewhere they can go look at if they (the employees) want to, there is a defense against the intrusion. If, however, there are flag's (motd's) banners on the bulletin boards, etc. explaining this, then there is NO reasonable expectation of privacy. Hey, the company owns the computers and has some sort of jurisdiction over the content. Not the best answer, but legally they might have the edge. I would ignore anything that is not illegal (child pronography, etc.) or not major abuse (i.e. 10+ images a day, etc.) It's just like playing solitaire on the Win95 boxes, wasted resources..... my $0.02 -Jaffo
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When I worked for DEC, and my family as well, we were all active with DEC and The United Way. DEC was a great company to work with, IMHO, until they started selling off the profitable divisions to try and stay afloat...the sale of Disk Drive Manufacturing to Quantum was heartbreaking for a lot of us. Things kinda went down hill from there, and I left long before Compaq bought them, but from my Sister In Law's comments, Compaq is almost as good as DEC was.
Wow, this'll be neat to see! We don't here a lot about Linux being used by the Gov't., except for the few obvious ones in the last year or so...I forget, but wasn't it an army web server or something? Anyway, NSA has the bucks to spend on a project like this...if they stay behind it. So, will they release this Secure Distribution under the GPL? ;-)
Yes, we use this model for Mobile Date Terminals at the Pueblo, Colorado Police Department. Running Win95B (yech) with a terminal program by Allinson-Ross to log in to the old Unisys Mainframe, and via secure fiber to the Colorado Criminal Information Computers. Transmission is via a radio modem, seriously encrypted (of course) so the connection is ssslllooooww. But that notebook is DAMN tough. You can spill coffee all over it, and it keeps on tickin!
--Officer Jeff Pettorino, Pueblo PD
It sounds like company policy is pretty straightforward. Now, it depends on how this policy is given to the employee...if there is a rule book somewhere they can go look at if they (the employees) want to, there is a defense against the intrusion. If, however, there are flag's (motd's) banners on the bulletin boards, etc. explaining this, then there is NO reasonable expectation of privacy. Hey, the company owns the computers and has some sort of jurisdiction over the content. Not the best answer, but legally they might have the edge. I would ignore anything that is not illegal (child pronography, etc.) or not major abuse (i.e. 10+ images a day, etc.) It's just like playing solitaire on the Win95 boxes, wasted resources..... my $0.02 -Jaffo