... office, at school, and at home to communicate with people, find information for work and school, find research for projects or just simply use it for entertainment. People can find jokes on the internet, use instant messenger to quickly relay messages to friends or co-workers or simply play games at work, school or in our home. He describes being online ... ...
... target other organisations, making your organisation appear responsible - and therefore liable. Email presents a network with perhaps its greatest realistic threat. Most computers will definitely receive virus attacks. Some viruses are jokes but others can delete all of the data from the machine it infests, cause system instability or completely overload a network. Others are designed to open a "back door- into a system giving ... ...
... the "right" message across. But despite of these innovations, there are frequent situations, when people run into confusion as to what was the real message behind a particular conversation one had. Jokes can often be interpreted to be serious comments. Only experienced users are aware of the use of the software and the messages coming across, with some degree of accuracy. A novice ... ...
... , even today there is doubt as to whether specific aspects of workplace surveillance are considered legal or not. Last year, a well-known newspaper fired twenty-three employees fro sending distasteful jokes through email (Segan, 2003). The company said the firings were necessary to maintain a harassment-free workplace. In spite of this there is a fine line between what is regarded as appropriate ... ...
... the web or writing personal emails when they should be working. This benefits the employer by abling them to prevent for example, hostile work environment by circulating racial or ethnic jokes on the company's e-mail system. In addition, because sexually explicit material is readily available from the Internet, and this material can be easily downloaded and forwarded to other employees, employers ... ...
