<troll><div>So the person that forgot the iPhone prototype in a bar isn't a quality employee?</div><div></troll></div><div><br></div><div>Unfortunately, even quality employees can do things they shouldn't. Because someone doesn't agree with the corporate rules, doesn't necessarily make them a malicious employee. I hate the fact that I have to use Outlook, and that I'm on a corporate domain (until recently, we had a domain for our office, not hooked into the big corporate domain). I hate the fact that they've instituted idiotic rules for software, locking things down so tight that, if I develop a program that uses the network, I have to have them open up a port in the firewall. Not just for me, but for everyone in the corporation (because that's how they do things). And every computer on the domain must be Windows, and we're all supposed to develop on the computers that are connected to that domain. However, if someone decides to develop on a computer that's not hooked into the large domain, does that make them a malicious employee? Or an example that's relevant to me, if I use a browser on a computer that isn't on the large domain, just to keep them from prying too much, am I being malicious? I would argue that as long as I'm not doing something stupid (like agreeing to a contract in instant messenger), then I'm not being malicious. My point is, an employee isn't necessarily malicious, that implies that they're doing "bad things" with intent to do harm. Most of the rules are put into place for people who don't know any better or lack common sense.</div>
<div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 12:12 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jrnosee@gmail.com" target="_blank">jrnosee@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">You hit the nail on the head here. Sad to say this isn't the only paranoia block that's been done that's basically plugged 1 hole in a strainer. While we can have USB drives we're simply not supposed to remove confidential docs. While we're not supposed to have contractors on our network we have in the past.....<br>
<br>I agree completely. If you hire good quality people things like this shouldn't be a problem.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Matt Stanton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:inflatablesoulmate@brothersofchaos.com" target="_blank">inflatablesoulmate@brothersofchaos.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Yeah, but couldn't they also just ftp/scp confidential documents to
anywhere they pleased? Even using a thumbdrive would be possible. I
suppose there are ways of making it so that people don't have access to
removable storage or downloaded programs (to prevent people from
installing a program that could transmit those docs). In the end,
though, it's a matter of getting rid of malicious employees.<div><br>
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On 4/17/2010 7:10 PM, <a href="mailto:jrnosee@gmail.com" target="_blank">jrnosee@gmail.com</a> wrote:
</div><blockquote type="cite"><div>I think too it's a matter of trusting people with internal
access who might put confidential documents on Google docs and then
retrieve them elsewhere.<br>
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