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The Lounge / Tracing 'stolen' PC files

« on: December 28, 2015, 12:09:33 PM »

Long story short, a former colleague of mine moved to another company and in the process copied/lifted 500 files (word docs, spreadsheets, etc). She got caught and now it's some big legal debacle with our lawyers. It's the kind of thing we all think about doing for personal gain but to do it on that scale is fucking stupid on her part.

I'm dead curious about it all but obviously it's a sensitive subject with my director who feels betrayed so I don't wish to press her. So, how did she get caught?

I would give her more credit than sending them through her work email, not least the sheer time it would take. Is there a way the IT staff in our office could 'see' if she had uploaded them to something like WeTransfer for example? Is there any hidden marker on files that says when/where it has been copied to a USB stick for example?

Thoughts and conspiracy theories welcome.

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The Lounge / Internet Explorer

« on: March 05, 2015, 08:51:37 AM »

We all know it is crap/slow/useless - but why?

I use other browsers and have done for as long as I can remember but I thought today, how in this day and age can it still be so bad?

I don't imagine that the tech boffins and engineers at Microsoft are any less intelligent than those at Mozilla etc so why can't they seem to get it right?

Answer me this, chums.