i don't reply tags on my blog or anywhere. ouh except at the office when people start scribbling on the white board because its so much fun.
wait. that's not tagging.
anyways, back to the topic; i just don't. why? because some questions on the tag can actually aid identity theft or security breach.
who has recently registered for say E-bay, PayPal or any financial services recently? these sites gave you specific personal questions like 'What is you mother's maiden name?', ' Tell us the name of your favorite character', ' Tell us what you dream at night' or ' Share with us on your views on politics'. OK, i know i just made up the latter two but you get the drill. and the reason for these questions are to improve your security. And how can you tell the level of security when you blab about your mother's maiden name in blogs or social networks? doesn't that defies the purpose.
let's say you think that this will not impose a problem because you are just 16 and is currently not using other financial services. well, obviously you have an email right? imagine someone having control over the email and email everyone on your list for money. isn't that fraud?
and another thing; posting phone numbers over the Internet in wide open space. if you want to share your phone numbers, do it through personal message. it is extremely dangerous to post your numbers in blogs you know. people can just text you and claim that i'm the one who always comments on your shoutbox bla bla bla. and when someone wants to trick you, they study you and they study patterns. jadi janganlah dengan selambe yaya percaya yang org yang sedang text anda itu adalah kawan anda. it can be anybody. it can even make a joke:
' ala you ni. nak kawan dengan i pun takot. bukannye i gune org utk jadikan drug mule'
funny? yeah, they know how to get into our heart just like that *feel free to snap your finger now..
mereka boleh menanam tebu, membuat kilang tebu, malah menjual air tebu di pinggir bibir untuk menipu anda. and please please please girls, be very careful with this. you know that you can easily fall for someone when you talk to them very frequently. even twice in one week.
so, the reason for not replying to any tags or telling more things about myself (which i think i have done so previously) is not because i'm lazy. i'm just wary of my own safety.
OK I lied. i'm lazy BUT the other reason is stronger so there it is.
it's nearly 11 am. got to go stalk other blogs. ta~
Showing posts with label Internet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Internet. Show all posts
Sunday, February 07, 2010
Monday, June 16, 2008
Beware! Your Boss Can See What You Are Doing
Not recommended for those having high proficiency in IT security or have wide knowledge in IT surveillance.
It's another day in Anne's life. She commutes from home as early as 7.15am and rushes to open the office. she went to the coffee and enjoyed her solitude. And as usual, she logged on to the Internet and starts reading what her friends are writing. As she was too engrossed in it, she finished reading at 9.20 am and starts working. Anne never thought that her superiors will find out about this activity, which happens almost daily. At times, she will be surfing the internet one hour well before lunch. Anne was sure that no one will notice what she did as she sat at the very corner of the office.
And of course she was really shocked to receive a warning letter on her Internet activity. Apparently, her employers are watching what she was doing, without having to look over her shoulders. Every activity she carried out was monitored.
Usually, offices install IT surveillance system on their network. This is to stop employees from visiting sites with abusive and offensive contents. And some just block community portals like facebook and MySpace; just to make sure the productivity of the employees are kept at the maximum.
There is a good reason why employers monitor what their workers are doing on their computer. Every time spent working or surfing was recoded, so as the keystrokes and log downloads. This means that you can be sitting at the very end of the cubicle and emailing your girlfriend or adik angkat or tok penghulu and you think your superiors will not notice when clearly they do. Some employers even took the step to install an IT surveillance system that can capture the snapshots on what employers are doing on their computer.
In terms of keywords, the IT surveillance system look for offensive keywords and such. The reason for this is some of the sites that contain adult-content comes with virus so stopping employees to visit the sites will save the employer from lots of trouble.
Of course, sending malicious stuff over the office email spelled trouble (you will be very surprised to find some people actually did this). However, this does not mean whatever we write on the Gmail or Yahoo accounts will be safe. Every keystrokes are monitored so the easiest way to do, refrain from talking trash about your employer. It's just too dangerous and not worth it.
To say this is unfair is going a bit too far. Most of the enterprises and companies state in their contract and agreement that there are some regulations on Internet usage and such. If, for some reason or another, the employer failed to elaborate on the regulations, take the initiative to ask as in this case, ignorance spells trouble, not bliss.
To be continued
Not recommended for those having high proficiency in IT security or have wide knowledge in IT surveillance.
It's another day in Anne's life. She commutes from home as early as 7.15am and rushes to open the office. she went to the coffee and enjoyed her solitude. And as usual, she logged on to the Internet and starts reading what her friends are writing. As she was too engrossed in it, she finished reading at 9.20 am and starts working. Anne never thought that her superiors will find out about this activity, which happens almost daily. At times, she will be surfing the internet one hour well before lunch. Anne was sure that no one will notice what she did as she sat at the very corner of the office.
And of course she was really shocked to receive a warning letter on her Internet activity. Apparently, her employers are watching what she was doing, without having to look over her shoulders. Every activity she carried out was monitored.
Usually, offices install IT surveillance system on their network. This is to stop employees from visiting sites with abusive and offensive contents. And some just block community portals like facebook and MySpace; just to make sure the productivity of the employees are kept at the maximum.
There is a good reason why employers monitor what their workers are doing on their computer. Every time spent working or surfing was recoded, so as the keystrokes and log downloads. This means that you can be sitting at the very end of the cubicle and emailing your girlfriend or adik angkat or tok penghulu and you think your superiors will not notice when clearly they do. Some employers even took the step to install an IT surveillance system that can capture the snapshots on what employers are doing on their computer.
In terms of keywords, the IT surveillance system look for offensive keywords and such. The reason for this is some of the sites that contain adult-content comes with virus so stopping employees to visit the sites will save the employer from lots of trouble.
Of course, sending malicious stuff over the office email spelled trouble (you will be very surprised to find some people actually did this). However, this does not mean whatever we write on the Gmail or Yahoo accounts will be safe. Every keystrokes are monitored so the easiest way to do, refrain from talking trash about your employer. It's just too dangerous and not worth it.
To say this is unfair is going a bit too far. Most of the enterprises and companies state in their contract and agreement that there are some regulations on Internet usage and such. If, for some reason or another, the employer failed to elaborate on the regulations, take the initiative to ask as in this case, ignorance spells trouble, not bliss.
To be continued
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Thanks to the advent of the Internet, we are now able to communicate and correspond with each other faster. We can even talk to out friend in Manila or Botsvana without having to use the telephone because of the Voice Over Internet Protocol. It's easy and cheap and we can talk until we drop (unless the connection got disconnected).
Apart from that, finding a job is getting easier with the Internet. With just one simple click, you can submit your resume and just wait for the phone call. If it does not get through, you will be notified through the same media; the Internet, without having to wait and keep on waiting. As soon as we know the answer to the application, we continue our search on the World Wide Web for other jobs.
If we are getting savvy on the Internet, we have to remember this is also the case of our future employers. Everything that we post over the Internet can and may be seen by our future employers. The night that we partied till we drop on our graduation night or the one where we were posing in an.. er controversial ways, is not private. The whole world who gets on the Internet may be able to see whatever we post on our favourite communities, be it Fotopages, Multiply, Facebook or even Friendster.
Most companies want their workers to be of sound judgement. And imagine what they think when they see Khalil's picture trying to drown his cousin or such, it will display a not so good judgement of the young fella. Not surprisingly, he may be able to lose the opportunity to get the job.
The solution to this is shutdown everything. Delete everything that you've posted on the Internet.
Naah..kidding. It's not that hard, really. If we are lucky (or rather unpopular), our names will not appear on Google. That way, what we could do is to set our profile on online communities to be private. This way, the risk of being seen and scanned over the Internet will be reduced.
Google our names frequently. We may accidentally posted something on someone else's profile that came back to us and cause us the biggest fright of our lives. If it onvolves a certain email address, try to change it to another one.
On the subject of email addresses, sometimes the attempt to appear funny may stretch too long that we tend to forget that imasloth@gmail.com or havdhots bla bla are not meant to be given to our employers. A sensible thing to do is to be sensible and pick a more 'normal' emails that can save us from the trouble.
There are people who work for a charity organisation and such and cannot set the seting to be private. Well, keep monitoring your comments and posts as sadly, you will be held responsible for anything being posted by your friends. Its up to you how to carry this out whether by asking them nicely or just disable comments.
Honestly, I've never perceive the importance of screening what I put on the Internet but as I read the Reader's Digest for June 2008, I realized so many things that can put my future in jeopardy (luckily using different email addresses).
These are just some of the tips that I am able to jot on after reading the article 'How to Click and Clean?' on Reader's Digest June 2008.
*sources from the said magazine
Apart from that, finding a job is getting easier with the Internet. With just one simple click, you can submit your resume and just wait for the phone call. If it does not get through, you will be notified through the same media; the Internet, without having to wait and keep on waiting. As soon as we know the answer to the application, we continue our search on the World Wide Web for other jobs.
If we are getting savvy on the Internet, we have to remember this is also the case of our future employers. Everything that we post over the Internet can and may be seen by our future employers. The night that we partied till we drop on our graduation night or the one where we were posing in an.. er controversial ways, is not private. The whole world who gets on the Internet may be able to see whatever we post on our favourite communities, be it Fotopages, Multiply, Facebook or even Friendster.
Most companies want their workers to be of sound judgement. And imagine what they think when they see Khalil's picture trying to drown his cousin or such, it will display a not so good judgement of the young fella. Not surprisingly, he may be able to lose the opportunity to get the job.
The solution to this is shutdown everything. Delete everything that you've posted on the Internet.
Naah..kidding. It's not that hard, really. If we are lucky (or rather unpopular), our names will not appear on Google. That way, what we could do is to set our profile on online communities to be private. This way, the risk of being seen and scanned over the Internet will be reduced.
Google our names frequently. We may accidentally posted something on someone else's profile that came back to us and cause us the biggest fright of our lives. If it onvolves a certain email address, try to change it to another one.
On the subject of email addresses, sometimes the attempt to appear funny may stretch too long that we tend to forget that imasloth@gmail.com or havdhots bla bla are not meant to be given to our employers. A sensible thing to do is to be sensible and pick a more 'normal' emails that can save us from the trouble.
There are people who work for a charity organisation and such and cannot set the seting to be private. Well, keep monitoring your comments and posts as sadly, you will be held responsible for anything being posted by your friends. Its up to you how to carry this out whether by asking them nicely or just disable comments.
Honestly, I've never perceive the importance of screening what I put on the Internet but as I read the Reader's Digest for June 2008, I realized so many things that can put my future in jeopardy (luckily using different email addresses).
These are just some of the tips that I am able to jot on after reading the article 'How to Click and Clean?' on Reader's Digest June 2008.
*sources from the said magazine
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