Breach of confidentiality

[SueEllen]

While working for a bank with a fairly sophisticated printing system where you just hit print then went to any printer and scanned your badge to pull all your prints to that printer, we often had requests to list details of all prints for a userid in the previous few weeks. This gave document title, number of pages and printer location.

Loads of companies have that and they aren't all in finance.

They disabled all usb ports and CD/DVD drives. Couldn't email anything bigger than a few MB either.

Also disabling usb ports and CD/DVD drives is common likewise encrypting hard discs is as well.

[SpontaneousOrder]

Also disabling usb ports and CD/DVD drives is common likewise encrypting hard discs is as well.

As I found out starting this gig where they gave me a laptop that wouldn't work with a keyboard and mouse for the first day-ish.

[BigRed]

^^ yes, many big companies do their best to make it impossible to do your job. Smaller companies often let you actually take responsibility for your actions and actually make a useful contribution.

[centurian]

One of my friends works for a firm down south and sent some source code to himself via email, he got a letter for breach of confidentiality and is really worried, says he hasn't used it and deleted it. I was just wondering if these threats are real or just designed to scare the individual. Is it likely the person will actually be affected by it?

Within the past 3 months, I have seen a contractor escorted off premises for e-mailing a document to his personal address. The document was tagged "confidential" - even though the contents were hardly ground-breaking. But because it was tagged confidential, it was deemed an on the spot firing offence.

Source code would be regarded as confidential - although it was probably copied and pasted from Stack Overflow.

[BrilloPad]

he got a letter for breach of confidentiality

what did the letter say their next step would be?

[NotAllThere]

Loads of companies have that and they aren't all in finance...

I've seen it a Pharma company and one of the big drinks companies.

Was the code he emailed this bit?

   public static void main(String args[]) {

      for(int x = 10; x < 20; x = x+1) {
         System.out.print("value of x : " + x );
         System.out.print("\n");
      }
   }

[BrilloPad]

I've seen it a Pharma company and one of the big drinks companies.

Was the code he emailed this bit?

   public static void main(String args[]) {

      for(int x = 10; x < 20; x = x+1) {
         System.out.print("value of x : " + x );
         System.out.print("\n");
      }
   }

Yes - but they were using vba so it didn't run.

[BlasterBates]

Well he can expect to be interviewed, so if it he posted a bit of code simply to work on at home, probably get a slap on the wrist. It's a bad idea to do anything like this. There was a developer at one bank who pinched code and was offering it to other banks.

[Scrag Meister]

At current clientco, sending any email to your own personal email address is an offence worthy of contract termination.

I have a dispensation so I can send a PDF of my timesheet to my business account each week.

Other than that I don't want to test it to find out how strict the policy is.

[mudskipper]

A "friend"?