, 2005-11-22
The big story the last few weeks has been the Sony BMG rootkit and in fact, it's the kind of story for which columnists drool: a big company does something unbelievably dumb that violates basic security principles. If you don't know what I'm talking about (and if you really don't, I'm amazed - you need to follow the news more!), you can read excellent coverage on SecurityFocus, plus a good write-up on Wired, or catch up with a timeline of events brought to you by Boing Boing (parts one, two and three).
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Generally speaking seeing as how music on a CD is considered copyrighted material, and the original purchaser has "fair use" of said content, the original purchaser would not be the one wiht ownership of said server/computer the CD was on. IANAL but would that in the event of an investigation be considered illegal content on a government/workplace machine and violate some predetermined IT safe computer usage agreement. I know that my company explicitly outlines computer usage and content not authorized by the IT department is considered contraband, and is grounds for immediate dismissal.
A workers private content has no place on a machine that they do not own.
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