IT@Pitt

Employers and emails

I really did not realize how prevalent the practice of employers scanning their employees emails was in the United States and around the world. In fact over 70% of companies with more than 1,000 employees monitor emails and other internet activity according to a Nightly News poll. Also, over 30% of the American working public has received some kind of disciplinary action because of employer monitoring of email or internet use. We discussed this fact in the FLAG presentation that my group did this past week in part of the presentation that deals with netiquette. One of the rules of proper netiquette is to always seek the approval of the sender of an email before it is forwarded on to another party. I agree wholeheartedly with this suggestion. However, if employers are already reading employees mail then email are already being seen by unintended parties which is in violation of the previously mentioned netiquette rule.
Also, in I agree that employees should do their assigned work on company time and if you are not doing your job because you are too busy doing your own personal business then you should be disciplined. However, I do not believe that an email that you send during you break or lunch hour should be able to be viewed by anyone than the party you intend to view it. It would only be proper netiquette.
this chapter is the issue of how to design a "safe" password. Through the use of heuristics a person should be able to design a password that it almost uncrackable to anyone, but themself. I personally have attempted to use heuristics to create passwords and have ha mixed success, but learning the macanics of heuristics was a bit of an aha moment in and of itself.

posted by julie @ 10:00 PM