Spyware: the parent's friend

[Ironwood]

So it's not Medical Doctor?

That's what it means to me, but I'm sure Ironwood will tell us it's scottish slang for "nuts" or something. I can never understand what the hell they are saying when I go over there anyway.

Are you seriously trying to tell me that none of you use MD as Managing Director ?

Did anyone actually think I was suggesting that Doctors were going around snooping people ?

Fuck Sake.

[Trippy]

Never heard of it. But I've been out of the corporate IT world for a while now.

[eldaec]

I'm terribly sorry that "over here" wasn't clear enough to show you I talk about the country I live in. I'll try to be more precise in the future . Also, maybe I should include a world map newer than 1945, where Austria isn't still a part of Germany.

Sorry - I thought you lived in Germany because you said that was illegal where you lived, and didn't realise there was another country with laws reaching that far.

..... one could argue that kind of makes my point about how your post would have benefitted from 'in <country>'. 

[Tebonas]

Most of our laws are very similar. Heck, we still have the church tax in place for the catholic church that Hitler invented. So its a common and entirely understandable mistake.

I will make provisions in my profile to prevent such errors in the future.

[Lantyssa]

It would never fly where I work.  But then I imagine myself and the other IT person would shoot it down before it ever reached the faculty.  I would not want to be the person telling them we're going to implment something like that...

First, you don't tell anyone. Hell, I've known companies where the CEO and President didn't know...just the CSO (Chief Security Officer) and his staff, and -sometimes- the CIO.

The factor you are missing/implying is when management gets involved. You DO NOT EVER let management know that this type of tool is present on their networks, and you absolutely do not allow it used for "monitoring employees".

They couldn't get it on the computers without the two of us knowing.  They cannot get it onto all the machines without us.  If they snuck it in, one of us would discover it, eventually.

I would tell because it would be a severe breach of data integrity.  Research data would be vulnerable to gods know whom, and that would mean unauthorized people could have access to it.  When millions in grant money is at risk, I can guarantee heads would roll.

It really won't fly here.

[Bunk]

Hmm, never had a Managing Director. CEOs, CFOs, Presidents, VPs, Managers, Dept. Managers, Project Managers, Supervisors, etc.

I was the IT Grunt in a small heavy equipment company for a while, about 120 employees, 50 PCs. One of my duties was to periodically go through the IE Cache on the office computer of the girl in sales who was also the shop Union Rep. Basically, they wanted me to monitor how much of her day she spent on Union related websites instead of working.

We didn't use any fancy security tools to do it, mainly because we had no budget. Hell, it was 2000, and we were still running a DOS version of Accpac.

[Tale]

Dear Ironwood,

I read MD as Managing Director.

Yours faithfully,
Tale.

[Ironwood]

I'm just thankful someone did.  Every now and again on these boards I go through some weird dissasociative post that knocks me for a loop.

The idea that MD was something I made up did that for me....

[Evangolis]

MD is just American for Medical Doctor, nobody over here thinks of anything else.

[Ironwood]

Yeah, like Dougie Howser.  I get it.

However, over here we call them 'Doctors'.

[Merusk]

Yeah, like Dougie Howser.  I get it.

However, over here we call them 'Doctors'.

Doctor provides too much of a link to that kooky 'science' religion.  Thus our preference for the more neutral "MD".

[Signe]

I like the unsure side of you.  It makes you seem childlike and vulnerable.  I might have to hire someone to hug you. 

It's Doogie Howser, by the way.

[eldaec]

Most of our laws are very similar. Heck, we still have the church tax in place for the catholic church that Hitler invented. So its a common and entirely understandable mistake.

I will make provisions in my profile to prevent such errors in the future.

Nice avatar  :-D