Comments on: I’m Not Looking At Your Data

By: Smack

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:08:17 +0000

I don’t remember where I read it, but it said something to the effect of, “Yes, I can read your email. No, I won’t, I have better things to do.”

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By: Dave Farquhar

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:38:49 +0000

I agree on all counts as well. For part of my career my main responsibility was backups and restores, so sometimes I had no choice but to look at people’s data (well, the filenames). I suppose I could have opened the file after the restore to make sure it wasn’t corrupt, but it was easier just to call the user and have him or her open it.

I can only think of two situations when I opened a file without the user knowing about it. If a backup repeatedly failed on a particular file, I might open it as a troubleshooting measure. And, in one case, I had to comb through an employee’s hard drive to gather information for a pending lawsuit. A lawyer was telling me what to look for. I guess I did a good job, because they won.

When it came to actually connecting to other people’s machines, I did that a fair amount, but I was pushing data out to them, not snooping. I got to be pretty good at that.

But I started a new job in October. Now I have no rights whatsoever outside of C:Documents and Settingsdavid.farquhar. It’s a little weird.

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By: Jimmy Ipock

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:15:37 +0000

I’m with you on this. I’ve done the same job with the same number of people (in the same place no less). Data is boring and its time consuming to look at peoples stuff.

I have access to many billions of bits of financial information, but I have no desire at all either to look at it, or understand it. I just want the database to stay up..

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