Comment on Meta Employee Deleted 9TB of Torrented Files, Adult Film Producers Claim
FishFace@piefed.social 21 hours agoDo you think tech companies filter their employees’ internet?
They have tens of thousands of employees, a few of them are bound to download some porn at some point. And the amount downloaded is about 20 files per year on average.
brsrklf@jlai.lu 18 hours ago
Not a company since I’m in public administration, but my structure has a few thousands workers, most of them having access in some form to the network.
They do filter our internet. I don’t give a fuck whether people consume porn with their own devices and connections. But if you can download porn, you can download anything, including malware. And a bad actor having access to data on our network would be disastrous.
Unfortunately, meta has that kind of data too. In fact hoarding private data is what their business is about. Not securing their network is criminal.
FishFace@piefed.social 17 hours ago
Tech companies, as a general rule, do not filter the internet of their employees, because those employees generally need to do a lot of stuff with the internet (or networking besides the internet) and filtering it would cause a lot of problems.
Production machines (where the data lives) can be much more restricted than work machines. Strong access controls mean that compromising a work machine doesn’t give you access to production data.