KnowHR Notes: Don’t Put Confidential Information on the Internet
This morning on Metafilter is an article by fenniq called Security is for Suckers. The writer did something brilliantly simple and used Google to search the phrase “confidential do not distribute.” Guess what was found? 60,300 results. And the author says:
The Best Hiding Place is Right Out in the Open? Yes, its a simple Google search. But it returns confidential pdf’s and pages from all over the internet. Business plans, powerpoint presentations and other naughty bits exposed to, well, anyone who finds it. Oops.
Wow, that’ll put a curl in HR’s hair. And a commenter added “not for public release” as another generator of excess stomach acid. Sounds like it’s policy time. We’re on it.




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