What the hell is going on

Yeah that really pisses me off.

So I'm next? :-o

Apparently the university is watching what websites employees visit. Today it's arrest for child porn, tomorrow it may be firings for visiting Facebook.

At some point that is troubling.  BSU students, faculty and even the staff who are expected to be more 9-5 on task probably need a considerable amount of leeway. 

If we fired or expelled every user who violated the letter of the law and policy on acceptable use of computer facilities, we might not have anybody left. 

This scrutiny termed "routine" and about "security" is awfully 1984. 

Assuming these cases represent serious and extensive violations, I wonder how much time BSU should be spending on this type of effort, when they don't spend much time on other important basics of security policy like keeping software updated and training users to back up work, virtually no training or requirement to use top grade security practices?   In fact users are required to use some second rate security measures.

BSU computers are spam magnets and vulnerable to many other serious exploits.   Many if not most computers on the network are not secure because of that, and many not even really physically secure.  Most users in everyday work have to download files and access them, and access websites with either type of  routine use leading to having files on your computer which may loaded with malware.

Routinely BSU users see email in their official email designed as phishing or worse.  Users have no choice but use required software like Blackboard or even outdated software which forces a user to have flash or other insecure software enabled in their browsers or in memory on their desktop.

In most cases, I'd rather see significant time spent on that security than on looking for porn.

Excuse the rant.