A little bird from the West told me that "Buy High Sell Low" total remuneration for the year is about US$45,000,000. How did the little bird know? From the Sinkapore's civil service internet service? NO.Angmo garmen dun really cares. Dun tell me he got skeletons in his closet?
blame it on civil servants who given the benefit and privilege of internet access on their work computers to enhance productivity they instead spend much of their time browsing and clicking on sites and links that are not only suspicious but introduce spam bots, phishing parasites, and trojan horses into their pc's. most of them lie in wait and steal info when the clueless civil servant least expect them to strike. all systems are compromised and infected with web versions of std's, and a total shut down, ethnic cleansing, reformatting, and rebirth of all work systems becum necessary. but the verdict is on the users themselves, the idle, leisurely, bored and undisciplined civil servant who brought this upon themselves. yes, throw them under the bus.
blame it on civil servants who given the benefit and privilege of internet access on their work computers to enhance productivity they instead spend much of their time browsing and clicking on sites and links that are not only suspicious but introduce spam bots, phishing parasites, and trojan horses into their pc's.
Nonsense! Bullshit! TPX! Our civil servants are the most disciplined in the universe. I heard JohnTan swear on LKY's Red Box the other day.
banning internet is no enuff! ...
dey shud oso ban usb ports, cd drives, etc ...
who noes sum idiot may download a file in2 his thumb drive n connect 2 his wok computerz usd port ...
Only an idiot like LHL would think that there are no spies and espionage going on with these FTs.
blame it on civil servants who given the benefit and privilege of internet access on their work computers to enhance productivity they instead spend much of their time browsing and clicking on sites and links that are not only suspicious but introduce spam bots, phishing parasites, and trojan horses into their pc's. most of them lie in wait and steal info when the clueless civil servant least expect them to strike. all systems are compromised and infected with web versions of std's, and a total shut down, ethnic cleansing, reformatting, and rebirth of all work systems becum necessary. but the verdict is on the users themselves, the idle, leisurely, bored and undisciplined civil servant who brought this upon themselves. yes, throw them under the bus.
A little bird from the West told me that "Buy High Sell Low" total remuneration for the year is about US$45,000,000. How did the little bird know? From the Sinkapore's civil service internet service? NO.
Its very easy for the IT dept to check who is browsing what sites on their govt computers. You need to enter your user name and password to log on. if you then go to a porn website, the IT department can check that for sure. If you download porn movies into your govt computer HD, they will also know. Why don't they simply identify the people that are not clicking on related business websites and call them in for a warning. Continued misuse can result in termination. Instead, they just have a blanket cessation.
Apparently no issues with public servants using their own devices to access during office hours. So it does seem like they have lost the confidence tot protect their network which surprised me. I know that there is huge team that was formed couple of years ago to coordinate and provide the all aspects of security.
Typically MNCs and other private companies cripple ports and prevent rogue applications etc plus the mandatory firewalls.
I am sure it will affect productivity as most people for example need to google to help in their work. They also needs to keep track of latest news and development. Asking them to google on their own devices does not seem like progress for the digital world of today.
But they still have internet access!! I think they might have lost the plot on the digital economy. Again, another example of "We don't understand how to get this working properly, lets banned it."
But they still have internet access!! I think they might have lost the plot on the digital economy. Again, another example of "We don't understand how to get this working properly, lets banned it."
Civil servants will still have internet access you twit. The change is all about disconnecting the majority of terminals on the government intranet from the internet which I feel is a wise and prudent move.
There is no need for every single terminal on the network to be open to the outside world just as there is no need for every room in a home to have a door that leads outside.
Disconnecting work terminals from the internet means removes the need for securing every single computer. Security specialists can then concentrate on the main door and making it as secure as possible.
Pornsites and many others sites of questionable content is prohibited not only in the Civil Service but most companies. These are blocked off at the firewall. The list of the such sites are made commercially available by IT vendors who typically maintain the list for currency. Also prohibited by most organisations are popular social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter etc. The primary reason is to ensure that work is the focus.
By a vast margin, the common surf sites for employees are newsblogs of mainstream news media such as BBC, and search engines.