The debate over the ethics of using an employer's system to surf the Net is ongoing. Employee privacy rights and whether or not the company owns the contents of employees' machines are just two facets of it. The opportunity for system . . .
The debate over the ethics of using an employer's system to surf the Net is ongoing. Employee privacy rights and whether or not the company owns the contents of employees' machines are just two facets of it. The opportunity for system administrators to view personal information disclosed through Web surfing may also pose serious security concerns. Many of the ill-designed Web interfaces embed the usernames and passwords in the URL string. Concealing the URL of a visited site from prying eyes makes a lot of sense.

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