Clearly not to be trusted
- TAGS:industrial espionage, password
- IT TOPICS:Careers, Management, Security
IT pilot fish is helping out a new employee with the company PC that fish has just configured for him. "I introduced him to his new username and passwords, and suggested he could change the passwords at his leisure," says fish.
"It was then he told me about his dastardly past: He had been fired for industrial espionage.
"Security is a big thing, so why on earth would my organization knowingly employ someone who had been dismissed from a previous job for industrial espionage?
"It turns out that the incident of 'industrial espionage' was changing his password. And no amount of reasoning with his then-employer could convince him that this was actually a good thing and not an attempt to defraud the company."
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