[46051] in Cypherpunks
Re: Employer Probing Precedents?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike McNally)
Thu Dec 28 18:55:22 1995
From: m5@dev.tivoli.com (Mike McNally)
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 16:59:35 -0600
To: Scott Brickner <sjb@universe.digex.net>
Cc: David Mandl <dmandl@bear.com>, "Jason D. Livingood/WSC"@hks.net,
cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199512282126.QAA22624@universe.digex.net>
Scott Brickner writes:
> The notion that, simply because you're wearing a uniform owned by your
> employer, you're subject to physical search at the employer's
> discretion is laughable. The difference between this and searching the
> computer on one's desk differ only in degree, IMO.
Another vaguely-related concept is that of tenants' rights to a degree
of security in rental property.
My employer owns the workstation in front of me, but in exchange for
supplying them with software and ideas (when I'm not busy sending
e-mail to mailing lists ;-) they've "given" it to me to use in that
pursuit. They could of course insist that I pay for it, like the old
company store model that railroad workers dealt with. In a sense I
do pay for it, under the idea that the company would be able to pay me
more if not for the expense of the tools I need for the job.
Though the ownership==control equation works sometimes, and is
appealing to reason, I don't think things are always so simple.
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