I read a great article by Liz Ryan today in the Daily Camera titled “Who’s wasting time?” about companies that like to monitor their knowledge workers’ surfing habits:

Liz Ryan asks (of a PR guy that works for a monitoring software company):

“Why do we care what they’re doing online? If a person can build a DNA sequence by working for 10 minutes and then spending 10 minutes on the Camera blogs, what do we care?”

“‘We care because people should be working,’ said the PR guy.”

…

“‘Also,’ I asked, ‘if the person isn’t online at some non-work-related Web site, does that mean he or she is working?’”

…

“We say we want to move past the Henry Ford assembly-line era, but we don’t”

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But in the end, it’s good to know that these monitoring systems are easily bypassed with a regimen of Remote Desktop tunneled through SSH. Problem solved.

Update: Remote Desktop over SSH references: here, here

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