• Wrench@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Bypassing communication archiving requirements? Years ago, I worked for a company that logged all IM, etc, that occurred in a companies intranet. There were laws that required all communications to be preserved for certain industries.

    This sounds like a workaround to avoid chat history

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      9 months ago

      Generally bypassing these auditing requirements is a punishable offense. I worked for a firm that was SEC regulated and you might be shocked at how much effort was expended on ensuring these policies weren’t being circumvented.

    • dantheclamman@lemmy.worldOP
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      “We cracked the case open when we discovered their chats in ‘troubleshooting_not_secret_comms.xls’. They tried to cover their tracks through regular deletion, and they would have gotten away with it if not for one neglected PC in a disused office running an unsupervised copy of Norton Backup 1990.”