Snooping Through Emails For Expertise
from the you've-got-expertise dept
When people talk about the corporations snooping through email they usually think they’re looking for bad stuff. What if they’re looking for expertise? More and more corporations are apparently using email snooping systems to find out who knows what. The article points out the limitations of most of these programs (they return a ton of false positives since they’re simply based on keywords, with little to no “intelligence”). This is really just a different take on the whole “knowledge management” concept that people were so keen on a few years ago. Back then, they tried to implement systems where people would input their knowledge so others could find it. Those rarely worked well. I guess someone finally realized that people were already inputting their knowledge to emails. Of course, this still brings up a huge privacy issue, but I’ve already taken up too much space…
Comments on “Snooping Through Emails For Expertise”
sounds like just the thing...
…the dsniff project’s mailsnarf + htdig were invented for.
Of course, you should probably santize the headers and run forward and backward through
babblefish a couple of times to prevent any sort of political embarassment/blunder from
becomming obvious.