74 Percent of IT Pros Admit to Network Snooping

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[citation][nom]viometrix[/nom]when my company laid me off for no reason after 17 yrs of loyal service with no severence and a statement they would fight unemployment, i set loose a chain of events that wiped clean every server and computer across 19 states costing them billions and ultimately sinking the company into non-existence. i still have all the data i leeched.do i believe what i did was right, no - but neither were they. do i believe others should be snooping? nope. if your company is good to you, be good to them, if they burn you, burn them down to the ground.that stupid little severence package would have saved his company (and unemployment which i ended up getting after a few weeks of fighting it).[/citation]
You can make a good movie with your story, really.
 
how the f**k these IT admin find time to snoop around ? I am always busy with crap load of work and don't have time for lunch and these IT just seem to have too much time
 
[citation][nom]ct1615[/nom]74!!!!...well at least we know the other 26% are known liars[/citation]
[citation][nom]matt87_50[/nom]"74% of IT professionals are board out of their f*&$ing minds and have nothing better to do, the other 26% are incompetent."[/citation]
Seems about right to me. 😛
[citation][nom]guid_aaa000001[/nom]You can make a good movie with your story, really.[/citation]
Better than half the fud out there in the theaters these days. 😀
 
Don't buy this at all.. go find out how many store assistants steal the odd sweet from the pick and mix, its about as useful..

I never go where I do not have the rights to on any customers network, Its unprofessional and just plain wrong and I would not want anyone to snoop around on my network!
 
The ethics of IT people need to be along the lines of your doctor and accountant. They see sensitive, private information in the course of their job and no one questions it. IT is no different, we have access to things that need to be kept private. If you can't control your curiosity and/or keep your mouth shut about what you know then pick a different profession.

As a 17 year IT veteran I have had to put up with being accused of reading people's emails and other nonesense for a long time. Sometimes it happens where you are directed to do just that. Just because someone was investigated for misconduct and had his emails used against him it doesn't mean we read all of them for our own amusement. My user's lives just aren't that interesting.
 
once, just once mind you, I did save someone's personal data from their laptop when they left to company. There was one particular user who got fired without any notice. she didn't get the chance to save some of her photos from her laptop before leaving. I saved them to a CD and gave them to her later, but I also saved a copy for myself. she is quite an attractive girl. 😉
 
Several years ago, at a previous job, we had a manager that was sexually harassing an employee, via IM. But we could never prove it was him that was sending them. HR had me remote in to his machine and watch what he did all day long. Sure enough, he opens his IM and sent some very raunchy messages to the employee. I had screen captures of it all. It sounds exciting doesn’t it? Well you would be wrong. It was the longest and most boring thing I have ever had to do as a sysadmin. Watching someone work and screw off on the internet is the most boring thing ever, it’s almost painful. I have also had to monitor people’s emails for our HR department, and again it is also boring. I have enough email to read of my own, I surely don’t want to/have time to read other peoples.
On the other hand I can also understand why people snoop. Most of the time it is disgruntled employees, which feel they have been mistreated by the company. Sometimes they are correct; I have seen loyal hard working employees get the shaft by big corporations. However most disgruntled employees have an over inflated ego and feel they are worth more than they actually are. In today’s job market, everyone is expendable. Companies are looking to make money any way they can, either by increasing revenue or decreasing expenses. Companies don’t care about their employees and employees don’t care about the company, hell even labor unions don’t care about their members, all anyone cares about is how much money they are making.
 
I don't snoop, I keep my nose out of things unless asked to look at them. If I did snoop I could lose my job and end up in jail. To me the options are pretty clear.
 
[citation][nom]JMcEntegart[/nom]Likewise, most IT staff can tell you your password if you forget it; that doesn't mean they're entitled to check your emails, which may contain confidential client information, etc.[/citation]

Most IT staff don't care what your password is and don't bother to memorize it. Most IT staff, if you forget your password, they just change it and tell you the new password and set it to change on first log in (so you change it to something different).

Someone with Root/Domain password does not need your password to get to what they want because they either know the local root password to a machine or their account is already elevated on the machine to root level.

Likewise, most IT people snoop around because they're looking for holes and the like. Sure some are unscupulous and would try to harm their employeer if they were terminated, but most are trying to find out how to secure their network better from the prior folks that worked in the company's IT group that were more lax with security.
 
Why limit this to IT personnel? How about the HR person who goes snooping through old files, or even the archivist who handles those older files that are still on paper?

Some people are snoops, some aren't. It doesn't matter if they're the janitor with keys to every room in the building, or the local IT admin with rights to every file.
 
I dont need to snoop, most of the time users will leave documents like the entire pay scale of every employee in the company right in the root of a data share.
 
I am certain these numbers are inflated/exaggerated/encouraged but even so, always treat your IT guys with respect, we are not your servants and we will not say how high when you say jump. A system Admin can do ANYTHING he wants, there is no restricting him, he either has full admin rights or physical access to the workstation, or physical access to the backups, I've seen companies with heavily locked down privileges that also left their unencrypted backups in an unlocked cupboard. Hell I worked with a guy in Seattle who had all of his clients backing up their emails as non-password protected PST files on the public folder of the file server, oops janitor can now access the CEO's email. Admins can do anything they want on your network and there's nothing you can do to change that, so treat them well.
 
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