(April 23, 2016 at 11:24 pm)Aractus Wrote: That's not at all true.
Erm, yes it is. I used to work for a company that clearly stated in their company policy that using work computers for personal browsing was against the policy.
Quote:In every first world-country employees get a number of breaks per day. A lunch break for example, and usually other smaller breaks as well.
Right, and I covered that in my post. You just decided to remove that part when you quoted me...
Quote:Using the internet for personal reasons during your break-time should not violate any company policy
...unless it states it in the company policy of course.
Quote:unless they can show that your using the internet places an undue burden or hardship on the company
How about this one: Employees might visit malware infested websites that install spyware or other viruses on our work computers, which then can infect our network.
Speaking as a security professional, that's a big reason why companies today would make it part of the company policy (and likely also the security policy) not to use the Internet for personal browsing.
There's nothing really stopping me from installing code in this website that would call back to my computer, at which point I could attempt any number of known browser exploits and potentially gain access to someone's machine.
