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Blog Thread 4; Live Free or Blog Hard - 'cos we all like blogging
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: Papersatan on 20 Feb 2013, 07:38 ---*I don't know if the phrase design jam is common
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I've never seen it, but understood it on the fly without having to think about it.
On the block of Google Docs, note that this (a) was only for a couple of hours, and (b) was intended to be noticed - this is explained in the blog post linked from Slashdot.
A specific problem I had in all this was that one of my users' computers was (according to the central IT dept, who monitor the outgoing mail, and put a router block on it) infected with the trojan that this phishing trip was planting. However, the user and I can find no trace of either the phishing email or any suspicious web site in her history - oh, and the university-licenced AV (Sophos) detected nothing, either. I am really at a loss to see how it could have got in to this particular machine - if it really did (it's been formatted now, so I can't investigate further).
It won't take much more for me to have to look seriously into blocking outgoing access through my firewall except to individually approved sites - but I really don't want to go there, because of the nightmare of administering such a setup.
nekowafer:
I work in the billing/credentialing office of a radiology company that was recently acquired with a couple others in the area. We had the same director/VP/manager of the office, a woman, for at least 15 years. She did a great job of it, too, and everyone liked her. Once we were taken over by the bigger company, she left, and was replaced with a man. He was nice, but didn't really know what he was doing.
This company, on the whole, is probably 75% women. There are less than 10 men in this particular office. They fired the old manager of the office a couple of days ago. Today they announced the new one - a man. From this office. What I don't get is, why wouldn't they hire a woman? There were at least two in this office that could have taken that job. This guy is also from one of the other companies taken over - which just irritates me more.
I realize that I don't know any details and I'm only looking at this from the outside. But I just don't get how they managed to pick another man out of so many great women.
OH and this is the guy that seems to ignore that my department exists. We were allowed a "dress down" day after the Ravens won the Superbowl, and he just... didn't tell my manager. He told every other manager, just not her.
Papersatan:
I understand it was meant to be disruptive, but I am not sure how effective would would be at making people pay attention to their mail and not submit information to google.forms, while a disruption like that could have been a major problem for a group project. Finding time to write with two other Grad students can be nearly impossible, and for many of my assignments with short deadlines (one-three weeks from group formation to deadline) we only meet in person once, and then use Google docs. In these assignments the final editing is usually done at a time when all parties are available to log online and edit together discussing changes with the in doc chat function. If there had been a two hour disruption which coincided with our scheduled edit time, it would have been more than a slight inconvenience.
I am not very familiar with the actual capabilities of the IT department wrt email management. Would it be possible to just block access to google docs from within emails? That is, make it so I would have to open a browser and go to a URL instead of submitting an imbedded form (someone in the thread mentioned preventing POST actions, that would be what this is, yes?) or clicking on a URL within the email.
pwhodges:
That would mean re-writing emails, which would not be allowed under other rules; quite apart from the difficulty of reliably detecting those that need it.
de_la_Nae:
Frankly it's hilarious to me that people are relying on the Google Docs program instead of an internal system, but I admit I'm quaint in some regards.
Though amusingly the university finally just contracted Google to handle their email service, since their internal system was shit. So uh...yeah.
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