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Re:Googling Strangers: One Professor's Lesson on Privacy in ... by glangdale on Monday March 11, 2019 @10:58PM (#19364969)
It supposedly was the tradition at Intel to, on finding a unlocked desktop, to fire up Outlook and send a message just reading "I love you" to the person's manager.

I don't know if this really happened.

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Re:Googling Strangers: One Professor's Lesson on Privacy in ... by mayniac on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @05:51AM (#19366606)
Boss at my old company was hot on making people lock their machines. Used to leave notepad windows open saying "lock it" or similar, even when we had just gone to the other side of the room and could see him doing it.

After the Nth time of him being hypocritical and leaving his own machine unlocked when he went out of the room I made a scheduled event that popped up with "update complete, rebooting" and then restarted his machine, set to run randomly once a day between 9-5.

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Re:Googling Strangers: One Professor's Lesson on Privacy in ... by alsobrsp on Monday March 11, 2019 @11:54PM (#19365293)
We did this, but to all of IT professing their love for all to see.
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Re:Googling Strangers: One Professor's Lesson on Privacy in ... by superhuzza on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @03:12PM (#19371867)
At my current company, it's an email to the team promising to bring in for donuts or pastries friday morning.

People rarely leave their machines unlocked anymore :)

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