We should be so lucky. Instead, they'll be watching MTV of the future with Hard-On and Pussy Popper rappin about how they got the new 2025 model diz-iamonds and everyone who has the 2024 model is gay. AND they'll cost more (adjusted for inflation)! Then they'll drink fermented panda pee or something. Bling.
This seems like quite a waste.
Considering the energy and resources most large companies devote to preserving a squeaky-clean image, simply deploying a piece of software to help achieve this end hardly seems like a waste. And of course software can't do all the work--somebody has to read the ones that get flagged. A good company would hold such readers to high standards of confidentiality, of course. I would expect anyone caught abusing such authority to be fired as fast as anyone caught abusing the company credit card.
the companies are buying up expensive tools and hiring staff to watch just in case they catch the one or two problematic emails that go over the corporate network.
The study asked about "outgoing email", not intracompany email.
Emails are forever. A single employee can cause any company a PR fiasco (think "special sause" in McD's burgers). Employees could also share trade secrets with competitors. So no, I don't think it's as big a waste as you make it out to be.
If someone really wants to send out inappropriate emails, they're going to figure out some other way to do so, such as via a free webmail account somewhere.
My company blocks webmail. And reserves the right to monitor my outgoing mail as well as my web surfing. But I'm pretty confident that no one who performs such tasks would take that responsiby lightly (and certainly does not work with me, as that would create a conflict of interest).
that hasn't stopped approximately 1/3 of all U.S. companies from employing email monitoring tools.
Why not link to the source for your source (login)? The ITFacts.biz story got it wrong anyway: "33% of US companies monitor employees' e-mail" is wrong--the direct quote was "Almost 33 percent of 140 North American businesses..." You and ITFacts were off wrt the number and the sample. Oh, and the Tribune article was merely a syndicated column, using data from a nearly year-old study. Not exactly news. Where did I find that out? Look, it's ITFacts.biz! Yep, TFA was a double post.
Let's continue because we are not done fixing your post: 43% of those companies employ staff to check outgoing emails.
Wrong. It's "more than 43%" of companies with over 20,000 employees (not 43% of monitoring companies), according to the study. The one-third figure expands the sample to include all companies.
It is also worth noting that the study in question was sponsored by ProofPoint, which in fact sells monitoring software. So you could say that Forrester had a financial interest in high-balling the figure (which it appears they did, with all this "almost 33%" business).
More than one-third of Internal Revenue Service employees and managers who were contacted by Treasury Department inspectors posing as computer technicians provided their computer login and changed their password, a government report said Wednesday... That was a 50% improvement when compared with a similar test in 2001, when 71 [of 100] employees cooperated and changed their passwords.
In all, 7,500 IRS employees, law enforcers and outside contractors can access and modify tax returns and financial-crime reports, the GAO found.
A master list of passwords and user names is also widely available, the report said.
"Increased risk exists that unauthorized users could... claim a user identity and then use that identity to gain access to sensitive taxpayer or Bank Secrecy Act data," the report said.
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My Aunt sells identity theft insurance. Email me and I can put you in touch with her.
According to this article, it is possible to pick up brain activity from EEG's and similar scans. You can use that information to control a cursor on a CRT. Thus, there is visual feedback, which is probably good enough to gain control. Bio-feedback games connected to USB ports are old news too.
Think about how awkward it felt to drive a car at first. Brain-computer interfaces are probably not as difficult to create as they seem, and are probably no more than a decade away. Here here!
Surely you can't be talking about the International Herald Tribune. The only clean, elegant, readable news site on the web? It looks great in IE and Firefox; what browser are you using?
Someone obvously put a lot of thought into designing this site. Text is arranged in narrow columns, making it more natural to read, kinda like a real newspaper. Navigation is intuitive; printing and emailing articles is easy. What more could you want?
According to this backgrounder, it seems like China lives up to the hype:
http://www.heritage.org/Research/AsiaandthePacific/bg1806.cfm
BTW, whatever happened to TriangleBoy? And how is it different from Tor or Peek a Booty or Anonymizer?
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We should be so lucky. Instead, they'll be watching MTV of the future with Hard-On and Pussy Popper rappin about how they got the new 2025 model diz-iamonds and everyone who has the 2024 model is gay. AND they'll cost more (adjusted for inflation)! Then they'll drink fermented panda pee or something. Bling.
I don't know, $700 million is less than one tenth of $8 billion.
there would be a corresponding decrease in jail time. After all, the GPS device is punishment in itself.
This seems like quite a waste.
Considering the energy and resources most large companies devote to preserving a squeaky-clean image, simply deploying a piece of software to help achieve this end hardly seems like a waste. And of course software can't do all the work--somebody has to read the ones that get flagged. A good company would hold such readers to high standards of confidentiality, of course. I would expect anyone caught abusing such authority to be fired as fast as anyone caught abusing the company credit card.
the companies are buying up expensive tools and hiring staff to watch just in case they catch the one or two problematic emails that go over the corporate network.
The study asked about "outgoing email", not intracompany email.
Emails are forever. A single employee can cause any company a PR fiasco (think "special sause" in McD's burgers). Employees could also share trade secrets with competitors. So no, I don't think it's as big a waste as you make it out to be.
If someone really wants to send out inappropriate emails, they're going to figure out some other way to do so, such as via a free webmail account somewhere.
My company blocks webmail. And reserves the right to monitor my outgoing mail as well as my web surfing. But I'm pretty confident that no one who performs such tasks would take that responsiby lightly (and certainly does not work with me, as that would create a conflict of interest).
that hasn't stopped approximately 1/3 of all U.S. companies from employing email monitoring tools.
Why not link to the source for your source (login)? The ITFacts.biz story got it wrong anyway: "33% of US companies monitor employees' e-mail" is wrong--the direct quote was "Almost 33 percent of 140 North American businesses..." You and ITFacts were off wrt the number and the sample. Oh, and the Tribune article was merely a syndicated column, using data from a nearly year-old study. Not exactly news. Where did I find that out? Look, it's ITFacts.biz! Yep, TFA was a double post.
Let's continue because we are not done fixing your post:
43% of those companies employ staff to check outgoing emails.
Wrong. It's "more than 43%" of companies with over 20,000 employees (not 43% of monitoring companies), according to the study. The one-third figure expands the sample to include all companies.
It is also worth noting that the study in question was sponsored by ProofPoint, which in fact sells monitoring software. So you could say that Forrester had a financial interest in high-balling the figure (which it appears they did, with all this "almost 33%" business).
Auditors find IRS employees vulnerable to hackers (3/17/05)
... claim a user identity and then use that identity to gain access to sensitive taxpayer or Bank Secrecy Act data," the report said.
More than one-third of Internal Revenue Service employees and managers who were contacted by Treasury Department inspectors posing as computer technicians provided their computer login and changed their password, a government report said Wednesday... That was a 50% improvement when compared with a similar test in 2001, when 71 [of 100] employees cooperated and changed their passwords.
IRS Flaws Expose Taxpayers to Snooping, Study Finds (4/18/05)
In all, 7,500 IRS employees, law enforcers and outside contractors can access and modify tax returns and financial-crime reports, the GAO found. A master list of passwords and user names is also widely available, the report said. "Increased risk exists that unauthorized users could
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My Aunt sells identity theft insurance. Email me and I can put you in touch with her.
Also note The Sokal Hoax, a nonsense paper submitted to, and accepted by, the publication Social Text in 1996.
In fact get rid of options 1 and 2, and 3 would work just fine on its own.
According to this article, it is possible to pick up brain activity from EEG's and similar scans. You can use that information to control a cursor on a CRT. Thus, there is visual feedback, which is probably good enough to gain control. Bio-feedback games connected to USB ports are old news too.
Think about how awkward it felt to drive a car at first. Brain-computer interfaces are probably not as difficult to create as they seem, and are probably no more than a decade away. Here here!
Is it just me or are the Live Bookmarks for Slashdot and http://del.icio.us/rss/popular/ getting very similar?
Surely you can't be talking about the International Herald Tribune. The only clean, elegant, readable news site on the web? It looks great in IE and Firefox; what browser are you using?
Someone obvously put a lot of thought into designing this site. Text is arranged in narrow columns, making it more natural to read, kinda like a real newspaper. Navigation is intuitive; printing and emailing articles is easy. What more could you want?
The Beauty Queen
Functional and substantial... compelling...
The designer is a god among mortals..."
In terms of design, Google:search::IHT:news
Here's the link: http://www.heritage.org/Research/AsiaandthePacific /bg1806.cfm
According to this backgrounder, it seems like China lives up to the hype: http://www.heritage.org/Research/AsiaandthePacific /bg1806.cfm
BTW, whatever happened to TriangleBoy? And how is it different from Tor or Peek a Booty or Anonymizer?