as work as a mainframe computer operator in a large datacenter. recently the manager has had this wild hair in his ass to setup public-available webcams on the computer floor, so the customers can satisfy their (i guess) voyeuristic urges to see 20-something geeks mount tapes and what have you. and the lovely part, there is no password or anything, any jackass scanning for websites can pull up this page and view the cameras .
Its a security risk if u ask me - a malicious person could easily see how many people are up here at night and plan their misdeeds. (we have like half a billion $$ worth of mainframe and high end unix equipment out here, and the customers are all state government systems.. the company that i work for that runs it is a very high profile us-govt defense contractor. Having a public webcams everywhere isnt the best idea IMO)
now he is really talking about putting one in the console room, where I and the other operators spend 85% of our time, sitting in front of pc's or mainframe terminals hacking away. I have no idea why he wants to do this, other than to 'keep an eye' on us and be able to spy on us at will
I am adamantly against this, as I see it as a major invasion of privacy. I understand if this was a convenience store or other high robbery risk place or something. but a computer console room? whats the point of training cameras on us so hundreds of people can stare at me when I pick my nose or scratch my balls
Is there any legal basis I can go to him with to try to convince him not to put up a camera in the operations room? its bad enough I have to walk around the computer floor like Solid Snake or Splinter Cell to avoid these farking cameras.
Its a security risk if u ask me - a malicious person could easily see how many people are up here at night and plan their misdeeds. (we have like half a billion $$ worth of mainframe and high end unix equipment out here, and the customers are all state government systems.. the company that i work for that runs it is a very high profile us-govt defense contractor. Having a public webcams everywhere isnt the best idea IMO)
now he is really talking about putting one in the console room, where I and the other operators spend 85% of our time, sitting in front of pc's or mainframe terminals hacking away. I have no idea why he wants to do this, other than to 'keep an eye' on us and be able to spy on us at will
I am adamantly against this, as I see it as a major invasion of privacy. I understand if this was a convenience store or other high robbery risk place or something. but a computer console room? whats the point of training cameras on us so hundreds of people can stare at me when I pick my nose or scratch my balls
Is there any legal basis I can go to him with to try to convince him not to put up a camera in the operations room? its bad enough I have to walk around the computer floor like Solid Snake or Splinter Cell to avoid these farking cameras.
