Hackers are everywhere.  And does such a thing belong in the workplace?
Nope.  That's not what the employer is paying the employees to do.

Jill

It doesn't.

Anyone without a good firewall and anti-virus on their PC is a fool.

Also, only a fool posts personal information online.

From what I've heard and read about them, they have totally inadequate
safeguards to protect the information of people using them (or the
computers used to post to them).  Consequently the computers used become
more accessible to hackers and mischief-making viruses than any security
conscious business would choose.

Don't you get TV news, where you are?  They are always reporting on
incidents involving incautious use of Facebook, Twitter, and similar
sites, and advising "common sense" precautions if you MUST use them.
(Some people aren't terribly careful what personal info they reveal on
newsgroups, either.)

Unfortunately, all the rest of the world is NOT honest.  When posting to
the internet, people may pretend to be anything or anyone they choose.
We have no guarantees that anyone we "meet" online is who he/she SAYS
they are.  (There ARE sexual predators out there who prey upon naive
children, and con-artists who target similarly clueless adults.)  One
frequently reads about some tragically lonely person (most often a
woman) who "falls in love" online, becomes "engaged" sight unseen, and
proceeds to share financial information, bank account numbers and
whatever else with their cyber "fiancé"!

We may like to think of our fellow posters to rpca as friends, even
though we've never met.  The majority of them probably ARE, and
accepting them as they represent themselves does no harm, so long as we
remember that everything said here is not necessarily the whole truth.

To Jill re library PC's. You're right, here they are snail-slow, too
and there is
something much more annoying to me common to county libraries here. In
a budget-cutting frenzy, local city gov't has closed *for good* all
libraries in
'hoods I will not go into in broad daylight, much less after dark.
This has as
expected increased by lots people using my local library, the huge
*main*
one. I don't mind the giggling students close enough beside me to
reach out
and touch in the next chair (tune 'em out) and the eaters, drinkers,
smokers
)yeah, they do sneak cigs) equally as close, but last time I waited to
get a
PC spot among such masses of our local "melting pots"citizens, the
large
male next to me, stinking drunk, collapsed, snoring, onto my chair arm
w/o
even waking. I stood up, the chair collapsed (my chair) and he landed
in the
astonished arms of one of the employee monitors. I exited, stage left,
furious
but making not a sound as the usual gigglers shrieked laughing back in
the
PC section.
Here, these people don't go to libraries except for one reason: to get
out of
the subzero weather into the warm seat where they can "sleep it off".
Once
you have a library card, no hoomin interaction necessary to snag a PC
seat.
Betcha don't deal with *that* in S.C., even with current cold wave
back east.