Speaking of screensavers and autolocking.

We had an incident where the FBI (I even got called by an agent from the KC
field office...) identified we had a computer on campus that was distributing
child pornography.

It was traced to a professor's computer.  Which was surprising, because he was
such a respected person.

They then found out that it was actually one of the night janitors that was
doing it.  Because the professor didn't lock his computer when he wasn't
there.....

On 5/15/2011 4:16 PM, Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. wrote:
> Policy is that our desktops lock at 20 minutes, though I once worked at a
> place where the policy was 5 minutes....though admittedly, 2 of the 3 people
> on the committee were running seti@home....  I'm pretty sure DoD policy is 10
> minutes (though they recommend shorter if possible).  

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