1 In 3 Sysadmins Snoop On Colleagues

klubar writes "According to a a recent survey, one in three IT staff snoops on colleagues. U.S. information security company Cyber-Ark surveyed 300 senior IT professionals, and found that one-third admitted to secretly snooping, while 47 percent said they had accessed information that was not relevant to their role. Makes you wonder about the other 2 out of 3. Did they lie on the survey or really don't snoop?"

Bad sysadmin!

[JohnnyBGod]

Down! That's a bad sysadmin!

Re:No Ethics

[The Ultimate Fartkno]

the only time I've ever accessed the company's assets are when it was warranted.

I've looked through your log files, and I think you're lying.

Knowledge is Power...

[penguin_dance]

Did they lie on the survey or really don't snoop?"

I say most lied. Knowledge is power and it would be too damn tempting when you could have your finger on the company's pulse.

It would also explain the smug look. (kidding!)

Did they attempt to coorelate

[Anonymous Coward]

snooping with the number of hotties at the office?

the other 2 out of 3

[Anonymous Coward]

said Yes but then logged into the recipients' e-mail server and edited the mbox file to make it say No.

Re:No Ethics

[Shakrai]

Maybe I got snooping out of my system early enough, before I was an admin. I just don't even care what my users email about. I'm too busy actually fixing things to care, unless something breaks.

Maybe I got snooping out of my system early enough, before I was an admin. I just don't even care what my users email about. I'm too busy browsing /. to care, unless something breaks.

Fixed that for you ;) Not that I'm any better, mind you.... :P

Re:And?

[Bandman]

it's nice to develop a bit of indifference

Exactly.

Ah, apathy. The cause of, and solution to, life's problems

Re:Only 300?

[Anonymous Coward]

Not if they're Spartans. [wikipedia.org]

Re:They have a life

[PhxBlue]

'Makes you wonder about the other 2 out of 3. Did they lie on the survey or really don't snoop?'

They probably have a life.

Or alternately, maybe they post to Slashdot.

Re:Time

[camperdave]

Maybe they are unaware of Slashdot.

Survey Results

[g0bshiTe]

2 out of 3, that's like the

2% of people masturbate in the shower, the other 98% lie about it

Re:They have a life

[g0bshiTe]

It's pretty pathetic to have to get one's jollies snooping on others rather than actually doing something.

Could you please explain Youtube then.

Re:No Ethics

[Anonymous Coward]

You will know then as a system administrator you have to run many essential housekeeping scripts from cron like.

find /var/spoo/mail -exec grep Bandman '{}' \; | mail -s "The're talking about me again" [e-mail]

Re:Never again

[metamatic]

Its very hard to unsee things sometimes.

Ah yes, the Goatse Principle.

IEEE Computer Society

[addikt10]

Members of professional organizations such as the IEEE Computer Society Have promised to follow a "code of ethics and professional conduct".

As a member, and having read the document, I understand that it is ethically wrong, a career limiting move, and not worth violating my promises just to satisfy my curiosity.

Re:And?

[timster]

Of course they are. Why else would anyone want to work in HR? Do you ever hear a sixth grader say they want to be in HR when they grow up?

Re:They have a life

[Ruger]

They probably have a life.

And it's called World of Warcraft...so there's no time to snoop.

Re:Scary

[Bandman]

The everlasting gobstopper approach...I like it!

Re:No Ethics

[karbyn-aceous]

roll models? How about the Pilsbury Doughboy?

right...

[axehind]

Yeah thats just what I want to do..... I dont like reading my own email, nevermind someone elses.

Re:And?

[Anonymous Coward]

Ah, apathy. The cause of, and solution to, whatever.

Fixed.

Re:Don't believe the hype

[FishAdmin]

1 in 3 is a completely made up number for the benefit of the company trying to SELL PRODUCT

That's true; surveys show that 72% of all statistics are made up.

Re:Time

[WilyCoder]

Then they are not sysadmins.

Re:No Ethics

[nicolas.kassis]

stop posting on slashdot then

Re:Scary

[wsanders]

Yes, usually it is just easier to hire a hit man to kill the sysadmin. However, it's not legal in ultra-liberal states like California and Massachusetts.

Re:Which is worse?

[ProfessionalCookie]

Nibshit is what happens when you port your Cocoa app away from MacOS X

One in three seems way too high.

[asackett]

I've been a system administrator for years, have never snooped out anyone's stuff. I value my integrity far more than I value the contents of your files.

Re:Scary

[Anonymous Coward]

wtf does &slashname3 mean?