First off Exchange is the most complicated and evil thing ms has ever made next to sharepoint. You dont need it! Here is why?
You dont just install it. The product actually alters AD itself at the schema level! So lets say you forget to raise the forest level in your domain as you just installed Server 2003. I bet you nooobs didnt know Server 2003 runs as Server 2000 forest and domain by default?! Somethin non win admins commonly make.
Oops just reinstall right? Nope AD has now been corrupted at the schema level and all users cant receive email anymore. Not even a tape backup can save you. Now imagine you have it working? How can people send you email? You get a ton of error messages when installing your cas outlook on the web about it not having a certificate?! Oh now you to create a Sans certificate. Now you need to register your web server so people can email you. What? You have to create a freaking IIS server too??
Have you ever ACTUALLY INSTALLED exchange?
SBS 2003 is easy to set up.
You do need a public static IP and certificate if, and only if, you plan to have it as your primary email server.
Ok lets say the name of your company is ACME. So your domain name is ACME.COM. I want to send an email to you so I write joe@ACME.com. How will gmail or my own Exchange server know where to send it? You need to pay an ISP to register that domain. Even if the SBS edition solves most of the gotcha's I mentioned above in the enterprise you still need to 1. setup IIS 2. register your domain name and IIS server 3. call a CISCO tech to come in and setup your firewall and enable routing to the internet for your SMTP Server, 4. You need a certificate so your browser does not freak out. No you can't just click a few mouse buttons as both keys need to be generated. One from your Domain controller and one from exchange and you need to manually put it in notepad and save the keys and the keychains on the hard drive. Maybe a gui paired program exists in the SBS as I used earlier versions of Windows Server which would be a god send as this is a royal PAIN IN THE ASS. I could be wrong about this part in SBS as I used it once but created the keys anyway out of habbit.
Or you can just setup gmail to forward pop3 to your outlook client? Hmm it is a no brainer which is the lesser hassle.
I pick the later even if SBS does automate a lot of the tasks I described above that is a hazard for the noobs if you do not know exactly what you are doing.
Also you have no security or spam filtering if you use SBS for just one. Now you need McCrappy or GFI for this. You need multiple exchanges running with virtual bridge heads if you want to designate an exchange relay (a server that is in the middle of your main mailbox and internet) to scan for viruses and filter out spam. GFI is a good one. Now you need to do the hardstuff like go into the powershell to setup the SMTP connector to Internet to communicate with the relay to your main mailbox.
Again an ISP managed Exchange or Google Docs/GMail will filter out spam and viruses for you. Not perfect but unless you are an experienced Windows Admin I could not highly recommend that solution more. Even the mightest of Linux geeks here pay someone to serve Apache and MySQL webpages. Sure they can play with it at home on Ubuntu but it is just is too much a pain to do this on your own and it is nice to have a staff look after your shared servers for a small monthly fee.
Exchange is a great necessity for large organizations such like Oracle database but if you are tiny there is nothing wrong using alternatives so you can focus on your business. When you grow large enough to need your own Windows Admin then start focusing on your own Exchange and AD environment. Hell if he is running it in his garage he doesn't even need a domain nor even Windows 7 professional. The home edition with dropbox is a great solution or an external drive. A NAS if you have up to 7 or 8 people too work. Anything else is frankly overkill and a royal pain.
First off Exchange is the most complicated and evil thing ms has ever made next to sharepoint. You dont need it! Here is why?
You dont just install it. The product actually alters AD itself at the schema level! So lets say you forget to raise the forest level in your domain as you just installed Server 2003. I bet you nooobs didnt know Server 2003 runs as Server 2000 forest and domain by default?! Somethin non win admins commonly make.
Oops just reinstall right? Nope AD has now been corrupted at the schema level and all users cant receive email anymore. Not even a tape backup can save you. Now imagine you have it working? How can people send you email? You get a ton of error messages when installing your cas outlook on the web about it not having a certificate?! Oh now you to create a Sans certificate. Now you need to register your web server so people can email you. What? You have to create a freaking IIS server too??
If IE 6 doesn't support it then I am not interested. We do not want to turn down.01% of our visitors as that would cost hundreds!! Now get your ass back to work spemnding thousands to support these hundred of dollars worth of users.
Java never really integrated. They were full programs that ran inside the browser but used the JVM operating environment which was its own mini operating system. Javascript can interact with page elements unlike Java which just felt out of place and not part of the site.
Give MS credit. IE 9 is the force real attempt at trying to make a good cross compliant browser. IE 10 has the most compliant javascript engine out of all the major browsers with the best performance. Like it or not corps will not leave IE EVER. They might as well have a similiar experience we get with Firefox or Chrome. MS has competitors now and can not do the same things they did when Netscape was spiraling out of control and out of business. Apple, Google, and Mozilla are not letting up and the W3C is now waking up and getting ready for the first HTML 5 draft by the end of year with 5.1 draft by 2014. If MS tries to do an IE 6 with IE 11 as an example the majority of websites will miss render and people will switch to another browser.
In the old days it was netscape that miss rendered as MS had the marketshare which forced them to switch to IE 6.
I think after writing sites for IE 6 your opinion will change quite rapidly.:-)
I was shocked beyond belief myself after believing the anti IE hysteria when IE 9 came out. MS should be given credit for at least trying to innovate and catch up. THe problem is its users never and I mean never ever update unless they are forced too with Windows Update! So people's perception of IE has them remembering 11 year old IE 6 with angry memories.
I think this is great if MS adds this but makes current javascript fully compatible with W3C and ECMA standards. However, I can see intranet makers taking advantage of this and creating tie in all over again if MS is not careful (like changes things around so corps have to use ancient browsers and force the whole internet to have a degraded experience)
MS is ditching JScript as IE 9 has a standards compliant ECMA javascript engine. IE 10 supposed to rival even Firefox and Chrome. JScript is still available in IE 8 or 7 mode which you can enable in your webpage for compatibility reasons.
NACL is proprietary and I feel Chrome is turning into IE 5. More and more proprietary, yet faster and better than Netscape. I prefer this as it is backwards compatible with current javascript and is opensource and not tied to anything.
Actually IE 10 is the most ECMA compliant browser in existence! I had a link too (lost it) and submitted an article on this in the firehouse. It got reject, gee can't imagine why:-)
IE 10 =! IE 6. As long as Microsoft honors standards to compete against Webkit and Firefox I see no problem with adding them if they are opensource. As AJAX is maturing we need to develop that further.... now if MS does an IE 6 and cripples javascript or changes it so these new better standards are required and ECMA javascript is required for other browsers, plus ancient MS jscript for IE 8 and earlier than yes that would be assholish and evil. That is not the case.
Sadly I was half joking as the government outsources to contractors who do not have these same clearances as easily. Of course because any Republican will say the private sector is always better.
In all seriousness, I hope I am joking about this. I have heard horror stories of SCADA requiring IE 6 for internet access for key nuclear powerplants and critical infrastructure. Sure they maybe on a private subnet but all it takes is some Chinese or Iranian user with a bad PDF to spoof an email address to infect the whole network and from there rootkit the routers and proxies to gain access that.
If China can even hack printers and themastats from the Chamber of Commerce my guess is they are already monitoring whitehouse email and probably have full access to the nukes if they do use IE 6 to administer the launches or ruin the equipment for them if they are intranet enabled.
Nah its not PHB approved by mega-lobbiest corp. With IE 6 anyone can send the missiles and it was made by state of the VBscript technology developed in India by contractors freshmen at Bangalore Institute of Technology. I mean with that what could possible go wrong!
Most HR policies are a no nonsense and zero tolerance to posting inside information and blogging proprietary information. You do it and security and an HR representative arrives at your desk, gives you a piece of paper to sign, and shows you to the door. Or they gave him a warning and he did not heed it?
If it is financial information that is a big no no and can mean heafty fines and a lawsuit. Much more than the cost of letting you go. So money takes and the door it is.
What the f#ck does his manager do all day? Hang out on slashdot?
A manager should actually manage and talk about what his guys will do so he doesnt have too. If I found out that would change fast! I would email my boss and put in place a new policy. That manager needs to go
Try working in a call center? You get 1 to 3 second mental breaks for calls and a flag pops up on your managers screen if you take more than 3 seconds! The result is insane productivity.
Why cant other workers endure what I had? If you make 3x as much your manager should know if you waste your time in meetings
You do not need a developer account. That is only if you write IOS apps. It is free to create Andriod apps which is why I own a droid. Applets on the Mac are nice and with a few keystrokes you can check the weather without the hassle of opening a tab and typing in a web browser.
MacOSX did it right. It is just Win 8 that implemented it wrong.
So if I were your boss I could log into your email accounts and you would be ok with that?!
I agree they own your time which is why you get paid and yes own the computers. However, using a sniffed password to later check up on your facebook and gmail accounts should be illegal. That is your own time. Looking up what comes up on the screen at work is one thing but using it to check up should have them be thrown in jail for hacking and trespassing!
I for one only check one professional gmail account at work. But still....
I do not agree with the policy. I am just saying I would sign it over and quit facebook if I had too in order to escape that horrible situation. People who blame employees for this are either living at home in a basement or a drom in college or have a nice job and never been jobless before.
I doubt anyone would be content in this situation but I hit an unemployment slump last year. Worst year of my life and I have seen and walked that life. That is a lot of leverage and pressure on you to accept it and shutup!
So you would be willing to screw over someone whose wife is about ready to leave, house is 40 days from being foreclosed on, kids are living on top ramen, and the repo guy is about to take his car in 48 if he doesn't pay up 3 months worth of payments now!
That my friend is what life is like for the un and under employed right now in this economy. I have been long term unemployed and no employer will touch you! Yes, anyone with a half a brain cell would be happy to sign that not because they have no spine but because they have a spine and are willing to sacrifice it for their kids!
I give my hats off to those who would do it as it shows character and a willingness to sacrifice out of love for his wife and family. I think it is assholish and cruel to demand such things as I support the law in California. It is just a sad fact of life in a bad economy that the employer has the bargaining power and society still expects someone to be responsible and pay the bills.
Clearly someone who has never owned a business. Yes a few bad employees can force a company to go under. Cough... HP under Fiona, Apple under anyone but Jobs, Nokia etc.
I gave the examples of CEOs but in smaller companies with 10 or less employees which are the biggest employers (believe it or not) a bad apple can easily throw you under the boss as your revenues are tiny slims of profit in the %5 to 10% range!
If you own a warehouse and you hire an asshole who tells just 1 out of your 10 customers to go fuck themselves you are done! Now your 6% margin is -4%. That my friend is business 101. Maybe Apple has insane margins but most companies only dream of that luxury.
In my economics class they used statistics to show it takes 4 - 6 weeks for a new hire to start to provide a ROI that hits the break even point! So that means the first month you cost your employer more money than you take it. Even if you are competent at your job there are procedures and things that are different.
In addition it is also taught that if you fire someone productivity actually GOES UP. That is because a bad employee has a negative return and hurts the productivity of the other good workers who are correcting his or her mess and explaining them for the 9th time how to do their job.
This my friend is why entry level jobs require +5 years experience and it blows goatballs if you are fresh college grad. Employers trying to go around this law in economics want someone who can be as productive immediately! That wont happen but at least reduce the 4 weeks into 1.5 weeks and underpay as well as a jr x.
When you have 100 applicants applying looking for grammar and pics of being drinking a beer can be a great filtering mechanism. Also it does not surprise me if insurance companies are making them.
Perhaps if he is a flirt he is more statistically likely to cause a sexual harassment lawsuit (just an example) and the employer would have to filter him out if they want to stay insured.
Just like criminal background checks, civil lawsuits checks, pissing in a bottle, etc. They do it not because of a genius HR executive gave the order too. It is because the insurance companies told them DO IT OR WE WONT INSURE YOU!
Remember the HIPPA act in 1994? We had it because insurance companies were just starting to force to screen applicants for learning disabilities, psychological disorders, and health problems. If Clinton did not do that quickly we would be screened out for taking prozac etc.
Corporations provide goods and work for people. This is not about socialism at all but the fact that employers have waaaay too much bargaining power in a crappy economy.
It is not socialism to tell employers to fuck off. Especially if it is not during working hours but rather taking advantage of desperate people. Employers sniff out passwords using their waive to privacy agreement to check on email and facebook all the time. You didn't know that? You agreed to it in the agreement?
My friend works in a law office in Southern California and they do just that and advise employers on how to word it so they can not get hit with wire tapping laws. Sorry but that is evil! Unless someone did it at work you can;'t then use that privately. This is the example too that this law was intended to stop.
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First off Exchange is the most complicated and evil thing ms has ever made next to sharepoint. You dont need it! Here is why?
You dont just install it. The product actually alters AD itself at the schema level! So lets say you forget to raise the forest level in your domain as you just installed Server 2003. I bet you nooobs didnt know Server 2003 runs as Server 2000 forest and domain by default?! Somethin non win admins commonly make.
Oops just reinstall right? Nope AD has now been corrupted at the schema level and all users cant receive email anymore. Not even a tape backup can save you. Now imagine you have it working? How can people send you email? You get a ton of error messages when installing your cas outlook on the web about it not having a certificate?! Oh now you to create a Sans certificate. Now you need to register your web server so people can email you. What? You have to create a freaking IIS server too??
Have you ever ACTUALLY INSTALLED exchange?
SBS 2003 is easy to set up.
You do need a public static IP and certificate if, and only if, you plan to have it as your primary email server.
Ok lets say the name of your company is ACME. So your domain name is ACME.COM. I want to send an email to you so I write joe@ACME.com. How will gmail or my own Exchange server know where to send it? You need to pay an ISP to register that domain. Even if the SBS edition solves most of the gotcha's I mentioned above in the enterprise you still need to
1. setup IIS
2. register your domain name and IIS server
3. call a CISCO tech to come in and setup your firewall and enable routing to the internet for your SMTP Server,
4. You need a certificate so your browser does not freak out. No you can't just click a few mouse buttons as both keys need to be generated. One from your Domain controller and one from exchange and you need to manually put it in notepad and save the keys and the keychains on the hard drive. Maybe a gui paired program exists in the SBS as I used earlier versions of Windows Server which would be a god send as this is a royal PAIN IN THE ASS. I could be wrong about this part in SBS as I used it once but created the keys anyway out of habbit.
Or you can just setup gmail to forward pop3 to your outlook client? Hmm it is a no brainer which is the lesser hassle.
I pick the later even if SBS does automate a lot of the tasks I described above that is a hazard for the noobs if you do not know exactly what you are doing.
Also you have no security or spam filtering if you use SBS for just one. Now you need McCrappy or GFI for this. You need multiple exchanges running with virtual bridge heads if you want to designate an exchange relay (a server that is in the middle of your main mailbox and internet) to scan for viruses and filter out spam. GFI is a good one. Now you need to do the hardstuff like go into the powershell to setup the SMTP connector to Internet to communicate with the relay to your main mailbox.
Again an ISP managed Exchange or Google Docs/GMail will filter out spam and viruses for you. Not perfect but unless you are an experienced Windows Admin I could not highly recommend that solution more. Even the mightest of Linux geeks here pay someone to serve Apache and MySQL webpages. Sure they can play with it at home on Ubuntu but it is just is too much a pain to do this on your own and it is nice to have a staff look after your shared servers for a small monthly fee.
Exchange is a great necessity for large organizations such like Oracle database but if you are tiny there is nothing wrong using alternatives so you can focus on your business. When you grow large enough to need your own Windows Admin then start focusing on your own Exchange and AD environment. Hell if he is running it in his garage he doesn't even need a domain nor even Windows 7 professional. The home edition with dropbox is a great solution or an external drive. A NAS if you have up to 7 or 8 people too work. Anything else is frankly overkill and a royal pain.
First off Exchange is the most complicated and evil thing ms has ever made next to sharepoint. You dont need it! Here is why?
You dont just install it. The product actually alters AD itself at the schema level! So lets say you forget to raise the forest level in your domain as you just installed Server 2003. I bet you nooobs didnt know Server 2003 runs as Server 2000 forest and domain by default?! Somethin non win admins commonly make.
Oops just reinstall right? Nope AD has now been corrupted at the schema level and all users cant receive email anymore. Not even a tape backup can save you. Now imagine you have it working? How can people send you email? You get a ton of error messages when installing your cas outlook on the web about it not having a certificate?! Oh now you to create a Sans certificate. Now you need to register your web server so people can email you. What? You have to create a freaking IIS server too??
So that means you want 11 year old OSes like XP which can't do the 3d acceleration nor h.264 of direct X 11.
Will this work in IE 6?
If IE 6 doesn't support it then I am not interested. We do not want to turn down .01% of our visitors as that would cost hundreds!! Now get your ass back to work spemnding thousands to support these hundred of dollars worth of users.
Java never really integrated. They were full programs that ran inside the browser but used the JVM operating environment which was its own mini operating system. Javascript can interact with page elements unlike Java which just felt out of place and not part of the site.
Give MS credit. IE 9 is the force real attempt at trying to make a good cross compliant browser. IE 10 has the most compliant javascript engine out of all the major browsers with the best performance. Like it or not corps will not leave IE EVER. They might as well have a similiar experience we get with Firefox or Chrome. MS has competitors now and can not do the same things they did when Netscape was spiraling out of control and out of business. Apple, Google, and Mozilla are not letting up and the W3C is now waking up and getting ready for the first HTML 5 draft by the end of year with 5.1 draft by 2014. If MS tries to do an IE 6 with IE 11 as an example the majority of websites will miss render and people will switch to another browser.
In the old days it was netscape that miss rendered as MS had the marketshare which forced them to switch to IE 6.
I think after writing sites for IE 6 your opinion will change quite rapidly. :-)
I was shocked beyond belief myself after believing the anti IE hysteria when IE 9 came out. MS should be given credit for at least trying to innovate and catch up. THe problem is its users never and I mean never ever update unless they are forced too with Windows Update! So people's perception of IE has them remembering 11 year old IE 6 with angry memories.
I think this is great if MS adds this but makes current javascript fully compatible with W3C and ECMA standards. However, I can see intranet makers taking advantage of this and creating tie in all over again if MS is not careful (like changes things around so corps have to use ancient browsers and force the whole internet to have a degraded experience)
MS is ditching JScript as IE 9 has a standards compliant ECMA javascript engine. IE 10 supposed to rival even Firefox and Chrome. JScript is still available in IE 8 or 7 mode which you can enable in your webpage for compatibility reasons.
MS is trying hard to catch up.
NACL is proprietary and I feel Chrome is turning into IE 5. More and more proprietary, yet faster and better than Netscape. I prefer this as it is backwards compatible with current javascript and is opensource and not tied to anything.
Actually IE 10 is the most ECMA compliant browser in existence! I had a link too (lost it) and submitted an article on this in the firehouse. It got reject, gee can't imagine why :-)
IE 10 =! IE 6. As long as Microsoft honors standards to compete against Webkit and Firefox I see no problem with adding them if they are opensource. As AJAX is maturing we need to develop that further. ... now if MS does an IE 6 and cripples javascript or changes it so these new better standards are required and ECMA javascript is required for other browsers, plus ancient MS jscript for IE 8 and earlier than yes that would be assholish and evil. That is not the case.
Sadly I was half joking as the government outsources to contractors who do not have these same clearances as easily. Of course because any Republican will say the private sector is always better.
In all seriousness, I hope I am joking about this. I have heard horror stories of SCADA requiring IE 6 for internet access for key nuclear powerplants and critical infrastructure. Sure they maybe on a private subnet but all it takes is some Chinese or Iranian user with a bad PDF to spoof an email address to infect the whole network and from there rootkit the routers and proxies to gain access that.
If China can even hack printers and themastats from the Chamber of Commerce my guess is they are already monitoring whitehouse email and probably have full access to the nukes if they do use IE 6 to administer the launches or ruin the equipment for them if they are intranet enabled.
Nah its not PHB approved by mega-lobbiest corp. With IE 6 anyone can send the missiles and it was made by state of the VBscript technology developed in India by contractors freshmen at Bangalore Institute of Technology. I mean with that what could possible go wrong!
"Next up, petitioning the White House to find out why the fuck nuclear control systems are on the internet ..."
Well that is easy. That is because IE 6 is required to administer.
Most HR policies are a no nonsense and zero tolerance to posting inside information and blogging proprietary information. You do it and security and an HR representative arrives at your desk, gives you a piece of paper to sign, and shows you to the door. Or they gave him a warning and he did not heed it?
If it is financial information that is a big no no and can mean heafty fines and a lawsuit. Much more than the cost of letting you go. So money takes and the door it is.
What the f#ck does his manager do all day? Hang out on slashdot?
A manager should actually manage and talk about what his guys will do so he doesnt have too. If I found out that would change fast! I would email my boss and put in place a new policy. That manager needs to go
Try working in a call center? You get 1 to 3 second mental breaks for calls and a flag pops up on your managers screen if you take more than 3 seconds! The result is insane productivity.
Why cant other workers endure what I had? If you make 3x as much your manager should know if you waste your time in meetings
You do not need a developer account. That is only if you write IOS apps. It is free to create Andriod apps which is why I own a droid. Applets on the Mac are nice and with a few keystrokes you can check the weather without the hassle of opening a tab and typing in a web browser.
MacOSX did it right. It is just Win 8 that implemented it wrong.
So if I were your boss I could log into your email accounts and you would be ok with that?!
I agree they own your time which is why you get paid and yes own the computers. However, using a sniffed password to later check up on your facebook and gmail accounts should be illegal. That is your own time. Looking up what comes up on the screen at work is one thing but using it to check up should have them be thrown in jail for hacking and trespassing!
I for one only check one professional gmail account at work. But still ....
I do not agree with the policy. I am just saying I would sign it over and quit facebook if I had too in order to escape that horrible situation. People who blame employees for this are either living at home in a basement or a drom in college or have a nice job and never been jobless before.
I doubt anyone would be content in this situation but I hit an unemployment slump last year. Worst year of my life and I have seen and walked that life. That is a lot of leverage and pressure on you to accept it and shutup!
I have news for you.
The insurance companies REQUIRE it. So get used to it as no one will insure an employer who doesn't in the next couple of years.
So you would be willing to screw over someone whose wife is about ready to leave, house is 40 days from being foreclosed on, kids are living on top ramen, and the repo guy is about to take his car in 48 if he doesn't pay up 3 months worth of payments now!
That my friend is what life is like for the un and under employed right now in this economy. I have been long term unemployed and no employer will touch you! Yes, anyone with a half a brain cell would be happy to sign that not because they have no spine but because they have a spine and are willing to sacrifice it for their kids!
I give my hats off to those who would do it as it shows character and a willingness to sacrifice out of love for his wife and family. I think it is assholish and cruel to demand such things as I support the law in California. It is just a sad fact of life in a bad economy that the employer has the bargaining power and society still expects someone to be responsible and pay the bills.
Clearly someone who has never owned a business. Yes a few bad employees can force a company to go under. Cough ... HP under Fiona, Apple under anyone but Jobs, Nokia etc.
I gave the examples of CEOs but in smaller companies with 10 or less employees which are the biggest employers (believe it or not) a bad apple can easily throw you under the boss as your revenues are tiny slims of profit in the %5 to 10% range!
If you own a warehouse and you hire an asshole who tells just 1 out of your 10 customers to go fuck themselves you are done! Now your 6% margin is -4%. That my friend is business 101. Maybe Apple has insane margins but most companies only dream of that luxury.
In my economics class they used statistics to show it takes 4 - 6 weeks for a new hire to start to provide a ROI that hits the break even point! So that means the first month you cost your employer more money than you take it. Even if you are competent at your job there are procedures and things that are different.
In addition it is also taught that if you fire someone productivity actually GOES UP. That is because a bad employee has a negative return and hurts the productivity of the other good workers who are correcting his or her mess and explaining them for the 9th time how to do their job.
This my friend is why entry level jobs require +5 years experience and it blows goatballs if you are fresh college grad. Employers trying to go around this law in economics want someone who can be as productive immediately! That wont happen but at least reduce the 4 weeks into 1.5 weeks and underpay as well as a jr x.
When you have 100 applicants applying looking for grammar and pics of being drinking a beer can be a great filtering mechanism. Also it does not surprise me if insurance companies are making them.
Perhaps if he is a flirt he is more statistically likely to cause a sexual harassment lawsuit (just an example) and the employer would have to filter him out if they want to stay insured.
Just like criminal background checks, civil lawsuits checks, pissing in a bottle, etc. They do it not because of a genius HR executive gave the order too. It is because the insurance companies told them DO IT OR WE WONT INSURE YOU!
Remember the HIPPA act in 1994? We had it because insurance companies were just starting to force to screen applicants for learning disabilities, psychological disorders, and health problems. If Clinton did not do that quickly we would be screened out for taking prozac etc.
Corporations provide goods and work for people. This is not about socialism at all but the fact that employers have waaaay too much bargaining power in a crappy economy.
It is not socialism to tell employers to fuck off. Especially if it is not during working hours but rather taking advantage of desperate people. Employers sniff out passwords using their waive to privacy agreement to check on email and facebook all the time. You didn't know that? You agreed to it in the agreement?
My friend works in a law office in Southern California and they do just that and advise employers on how to word it so they can not get hit with wire tapping laws. Sorry but that is evil! Unless someone did it at work you can;'t then use that privately. This is the example too that this law was intended to stop.