Comments on: Mind those IMs--your cubicle's walls have eyes

As more firms install software to keep tabs on workers, start-ups and heavy hitters alike spy an opportunity in surveillance products.

[slecalvez]

What about Webmessenger?

Can they detect Microsoft's web based messenger? (webmessenger.msn.com)

Just use an encrypted proxy service

The more companies spy on their employees, the more the products that allow me to "get away" with work-time Internet use will advance. I'm sitting here chatting and surfing away at work with all of my traffic encrypted and routed through a proxy somewhere in Europe.

This thing not only punches through the corporate firewall (getting around the censorware they have installed), it encrypts the traffic so that they can't see the sites I browse or my chat conversatiosn. I suppose I have to limit my bandwidth a bit or else one of the trolls who keeps the network running will get suspicious and drag me back to his cave in the basement.

There are tons of these products. I'm using the MetroPipe tunneler (www.metropipe.net).

The Internet feels more like a part of my brain each passing day. Damnned if I'm going to be lobotomized at work.

[volterwd]

not only are you lazy and not doingyour job

but i would suspect that the products you are using are grounds for your firing as well as are probably not working as well as you hope...

play around on someone elses time eh

[lingsun]

Just fire the morons who goof off.

Just fire the morons who goof off.

[ManInBlack]

As one of the aforementioned trolls...

I would gladly drag Mr. Wagnall's goldbricking ass past the cave and right out the door, pointing him right in the direction of the unemployment line.

In reality, the only kind of "lobotomy" suffered by slack-***** such as Mr. Wagnall is self-inflicted.

I have never ceased to be amazed at the stupidity of people who regard the equipment they use at work to be their own property, and as such, feel it is their right to dictate what they can and cannot do with said equipment.

And now, that same hubris is being extended to Internet services.

I'd venture to say that if folks such as Mr. Wagnall showed half as much initiative in performing the duties for which they are being paid a wage, they would not only have little to no time left for goofing off, they'd be so much moe mentaly engaged that they wouldn't care.

But, I suppose that would require one to actually give half a damn about giving a day's work for a day's wage, a concept very nearly extinct in today's workforce.

[inachu1]

I am so sick of people popping their heads over to speak with me.
I am going to order a book case that blocks anyones view.
Grab yourself...... man yourself up. But for the love of god if you want to speak walk up to me to the open end to which I use to go and sit down!
Next person who does this will be told what to do.