What’s On Your Computer?
One little sidelight to note about the Oral Roberts University lawsuit, is that – according to the written document – the majority of the allegations were apparently taken from a university owned computer. It seems Stephanie Cantese (Lindsay Roberts’ sister) allegedly was keeping a list of “areas of exposure” on her computer as a warning to Richard and Lindsay about things that might be out of bounds or inappropriate – financially or otherwise. Good idea. As Richard and Lindsay explained on Larry King the other night,
Stephanie was having her computer worked on by a student, who copied the hard drive and found the document.
The point is – how many business and non-profit leaders have been brought down by IT guys? From financial misdeeds, sexual misconduct, child porn, and more, over and over, we’ve seen stories of people who’s careers were trashed by what others found on their computer. And it’s not just bad stuff either – I’ve written before to never criticize someone in an e-mail, because you never know where it might end up. Likewise, confidential company information, personal data, passwords – a whole host of things could potentially be exposed if the wrong hands got on your computer.
If you’re looking at child porn on your computer, then I hope you get caught. But there are plenty of confidential things from a personal and family perspective where you should be very careful.
Of course, I’m not saying that anything wrong was done in the ORU case, but it really is a wake up call to live a transparent life, and keep your hard drive transparent as well. The Geek Squad is always watching… :-)
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Elijah
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Leslie I T Assih
