Posted by Otter at 12:04pm Jul 27 '12I've been working in IT professionally (earning money) in some form or another for about 17 years. I've touched, searched, surveyed, etc... 1000's of people's personal and work computers.
I learned very early-on in my job that there are things I DON'T WANT TO KNOW ABOUT YOU. As IT people, we can't help but be exposed to vast personal collections of every variety but we can help how much we look at it, think about it, where we focus our attention, etc...
A good IT person will look at your library and purposely NOT read through the titles... spending no time at all thinking about WHAT's in your library but simply how much, how many, how much space it consumes, how your system is handling the load, etc...
The world turns this odd blind cheek to IT people and exposure of their sensitive information. It's like... well... my guy has to fix it so... I guess he has to be able to see it.
I don't think it's all that much different from plumbers who see people's bathrooms or doctors who see people's parts. After a while it's all the same and you've seen almost anything. If you're any kind of professional, you'll keep it to yourself.
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I guess what I'm saying is - you probably don't have anything to worry about. Anyone who's been doing this for a while has already seen it all. You likely won't be judged by him for your choices and he probably didn't even really read them enough to consider what he was reading.
I learned very early-on in my job that there are things I DON'T WANT TO KNOW ABOUT YOU. As IT people, we can't help but be exposed to vast personal collections of every variety but we can help how much we look at it, think about it, where we focus our attention, etc...
A good IT person will look at your library and purposely NOT read through the titles... spending no time at all thinking about WHAT's in your library but simply how much, how many, how much space it consumes, how your system is handling the load, etc...
The world turns this odd blind cheek to IT people and exposure of their sensitive information. It's like... well... my guy has to fix it so... I guess he has to be able to see it.
I don't think it's all that much different from plumbers who see people's bathrooms or doctors who see people's parts. After a while it's all the same and you've seen almost anything. If you're any kind of professional, you'll keep it to yourself.
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I guess what I'm saying is - you probably don't have anything to worry about. Anyone who's been doing this for a while has already seen it all. You likely won't be judged by him for your choices and he probably didn't even really read them enough to consider what he was reading.
as a tech guy - Otter