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April 15, 2005

Down home security disasters

What with a Novell survey [Hmmn, what could they be trying to sell?] revealing that 80 per cent of Britons don't bother to take computer security precautions when they're working from home, representing a substantial threat to business, we daresay bosses might be more reluctant than ever to let people work from home from now on.

Novell says the people they interviewed are "ambivalent to" security. Make that totally ignorant about security. And who could expect them to know better, what with being worried about distractions from the television, "feeling lonely" and "missing the buzz of the office".

The answer, says Novell, is for the office to remove the responsibility for security from employees who work from home. [We'll bet that Novell can sell them a service that would do that!] And they could probably put in a machine that makes buzzing noises.

Posted by cw at April 15, 2005 05:42 PM

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