My computer gave away my secretsA good friend recently found out his girlfriend was pregnant when google autocomplete came up with 'symptoms of pregnancy'...
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chthonic, Fri 10 Feb 2006, 10:58)
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Back in t'day (*)when men were men and a 28.8k dialup connection were considered pretty hardcore, I worked for a largish co. which had an intranet and remote access for the field sales team.
Management were sick of the salesmen complaining that the intranet ground to a halt every night when they were trying to upload their reports, but they weren't inclined to follow the (enlightened and talented) network manager's suggestion of stats logging. Well, not until he implemented it anyway, and published the results on the intranet homepage.
The top 20 visited websites made, err, 'interesting' reading, and the culprit was easily tracked down - one of the system testers, who had been finding all the unattended machines in the building after office hours and setting them all off downloading squigabytes of porn. He had a pile of zip drives full of the stuff. Basically he'd turned the whole office into a midnight porn torrent. Hence the lack of response time for the sales team.
Unfortunately he'd logged into all the spare machines using his own username. Doh!
(* and before you ask, Google didn't exist yet)
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