Reply to: Breach of confidentiality

[northernladyuk]

Me too, and he didn't get a letter about it beforehand. I have little sympathy.

And on the topic of client confidentiality, should you have spilled the beans on that punter who rested his newspaper on your head while you were noshing him on the tube?

And you still owe me two quid commission.

[MaryPoppins]

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.

Me too, and he didn't get a letter about it beforehand. I have little sympathy.

[Old Greg]

I always find this locking down ridiculous, there is always a way around it and all you end up doing is hindering the developer. Given the developer wrote the code he could just rewrite it all from memory at home, whats next memory wipes on your brain?

Camera phone to video the screen while you scroll down should work.

[Pondlife]

I always find this locking down ridiculous, there is always a way around it and all you end up doing is hindering the developer. Given the developer wrote the code he could just rewrite it all from memory at home, whats next memory wipes on your brain?

You're assuming the code he 'stole', is code he'd written. May well not be the case.

[Unix]

I always find this locking down ridiculous, there is always a way around it and all you end up doing is hindering the developer. Given the developer wrote the code he could just rewrite it all from memory at home, whats next memory wipes on your brain?

[SpontaneousOrder]

If they're that worried about security, web mail will be blocked or monitored anyway.

I tether my phone, although unless it's just for a quick check on some blocked website, I tend to use my own laptop rather than the provided one for that kind of stuff.

[Old Greg]

The NHS is reassuringly slack for non-patient data. And as a result I do work on the train on my own laptop, so they win.

[Bunk]

Which email account was used?
If I ever have to email anything home I generally use webmail so that nothing is logged on corporate systems.

If they're that worried about security, web mail will be blocked or monitored anyway.

[KentPhilip]

Which email account was used?
If I ever have to email anything home I generally use webmail so that nothing is logged on corporate systems.

[eek]

A "friend"?

I hope so. If it was his last contract they will go for the goolies..

[MyUserName]

Why did he do it? Or, why can he claimed he did it?
If he had solved a neat but generic issue and wanted to save it he *might* be okay with a warning.

What would have been the long term effects of him having this code?
What does his contract say about IP?

No two ways about this - you(r friend) has made a mistake here and it is damage limitation time.

[mudskipper]

A "friend"?

[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.

[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.

[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.