Re: Stop The 70% Lie

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:51:59 EDT, The Security Community said:
> > If it bothers you *that* much, why don't you drop Calum and/or the ITWorld
> > editorial staff a note about it?
>
> The comment is at the bottom of the page.
>
> Calum has been inducted into the 70 Percenters Hall of Shame.
>
> see http://70percenters.googlepages.com/

I can guarantee that neither Calum nor the ITWorld editorial staff will
see it there.  Actually contacting *them* will probably work better - most
journalists *do* appreciate it when they get factual corrections.

On the other hand, it's going to be very hard to fight the "70% are insiders"
meme until you find a way to debunk this survey:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,369302,00.html

Survey: One in 3 Information Tech Professionals Snoops on Other Employees

"Do you trust your company's friendly information-technology personnel not to
read your e-mail? Maybe you shouldn't.

A survey of IT professionals
<http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,369302,00.html>  revealed that one in
three admitted reading other people's messages, checking out salary details
and going over board-meeting minutes, according to Reuters.

Nearly half - 47 percent - said they'd accessed information that wasn't
directly relevant to their jobs."

That's an awful lot of insiders to help pump up that 70%.  If that mail
that 1 in 3 was snooping on was ECPA-protected, that's gonna drive up the
incidents a *LOT*, and all of them count as "insider".

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