Submission + - Most IT Pros Have Seen Embarrassing Information About Their Colleagues 1
An anonymous reader writes: Often working in isolation, IT teams are still considered to be supporting players in many workplaces, yet the responsibility being placed on them is huge. In the event of a cyber attack, network outage or other major issue, they will typically drop everything to fix the problem at hand. Almost all the respondents (95%) to a new AlienVault survey said that they have fixed a user or executive’s personal computer issue during their work hours. In addition, over three-quarters (77%) said that they had seen and kept secret potentially embarrassing information relating to their colleagues’ or executives’ use of company-owned IT resources.
Everybody does it (Score:1)
Back in the day when I did a lot of helpdesking, I saw enough porn to last for a lifetime on the computers I had to fix. It was embarrassing for everybody involved so I started advising people to clear their browser history and make sure there was nothing confidential visible before I began. Helped a lot.
While I think having anything porn related on your work computer is definitely among the stupidest things you can do with it, it's not the IT departments duty to start policing it. It would only create a