



I. Better Defense, More Offense





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II. Big Challenges Ahead






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Source: The Washington Post

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one thing they can do
By AntiM on 1/28/2013 4:21:31 PM , Rating: 2
Make it illegal for any government employee to use any government computer for anything other than official business.
No casual web-surfing, no visiting torrent sites, no checking your personal email. We're not paying these people's wages so they goof off on their computers.

SEC regulators downloading porn??

Members of Congress Download A Lot of Illegal Torrents

RE: one thing they can do
By stm1185 on 1/28/2013 5:13:38 PM , Rating: 2
I agree. In an age of 4g data connections and smart phones government employees do not need to use government computers for their personal business.

RE: one thing they can do
By Reclaimer77 on 1/28/2013 7:38:34 PM , Rating: 1
Maybe if we didn't have million more Government employees than necessary, that would help too? Law of averages and what not.

RE: one thing they can do
By Samus on 1/28/2013 11:07:47 PM , Rating: 2
I propose a new government rule: freeze hiring.

For every position filled, a position must be eliminated elsewhere.

Start with the social welfare that is the post office. Half of them don't do jack shit anyway. I watch my postman shoot the shit on his cell phone for hours on end every day in his Chrysler minivan.

RE: one thing they can do
By jemix on 1/29/2013 1:27:48 PM , Rating: 2
Post a video of your postman here.

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RE: one thing they can do
By inperfectdarkness on 1/29/2013 1:55:07 AM , Rating: 2
I'd be ok with that, except for one small problem:

Personal email is sometimes an invaluable tool for maintaining a continuity link between changing email addresses due to being moved around a lot. Even the new email migration has not solved that for email in forward locations.

Being able to access personal email has allowed me to keep/retain soft-copies of many important documents that can then be forwarded to my new work email. And it gets worse when you have three work emails, none of which communicate directly. I won't even bring up the pains of budget cuts eliminating document scanners from the office.

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RE: one thing they can do
By sixteenornumber on 1/29/2013 6:28:07 AM , Rating: 2
Gov employees would be fired the sec they went to one of those sites you mentioned. I'm not sure how congress is or was getting around it but I guess they don't have the same check and balances the rest of the gov has.

RE: one thing they can do
By owsharp on 1/29/2013 9:31:20 AM , Rating: 2
If you're on a computer with access to military/national security information, the odds are its already locked down pretty far. I worked in mere state-level law enforcement for a year and the regular office computers (which did not store large databases of sensitive info) could only visit a few thousand white listed sites.

Think about the consequences though if you want to make it illegal for ANY government employee to use ANY government computer for ANYTHING other than official business.

Do you ever use your work computer to surf the internet for non-work reasons? Is your employer paying you to do that? What's the difference if its the government instead of a private business?

If you tell government employees they can't check their personal e-mail or surf the web on their lunch breaks or browse a news site every now and then while on the job (like every other office worker does) you'll end up with a lot disgruntled people. The ones with competitive talent and skills will leave government and go (back) to the private sector. The people without sufficient talent or skills will stay behind and suck harder at their jobs because they will be surly and won't have any talented co-workers pushing the bar up.

People want to restrict government workers in all kinds of ways, mostly by paying them crap wages. And then people wonder why the folks that work these jobs aren't smart, responsive or empathetic.

RE: one thing they can do
Where to begin. Let's start here.



RE: one thing they can do
quit sucking your company dry with lazines


