How does this even happen?

[jimbojones.livejournal.com]

$customer has some of those god awful "control panel" servers... not Plesk, but the same concept. You get the idea. $vendor is forcing him to do a migration, because they no longer support FreeBSD, so they want him to move to CentOS. $customer contracts with $vendor to maintain these things... sorta, mostly, except he's still responsible for maintaining the actual servers. Confused yet? Me too.

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Work computers are less private than you think.

[harry-whodunnit.livejournal.com]

Good: having a photo of your kids playing in the yard as a desktop background.

Bad: having a photo of your kids playing naked in the yard as a desktop background.

Worse: our user migration tool automatically backs up your Windows profile to my portable hard drive, so I've been carrying naked photos of your kids around for three days now without knowing it. This is how unfortunate misunderstandings happen.