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Originally Posted by drokmed
Definitely unethical. I can't imagine any instance where this would be justified. Sounds like an NSA illegal wiretap scheme to me.
I'm all for detecting an inappropriate session, but decrypting and reading goes too far. It's like reading people's corporate email. Even though it's possible to read employee's email, it doesn't make it right.
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You must not work in a US corporate office. Pretty much every company out there with workstations and an Internet connection monitors usage in one way or another. You know all those papers that you sign when you go to work for a company? You might want to read them next time, because you gave permission for your activities to be monitored.
If companies
didn't do that, they would open themselves up to huge legal liabilities. If an employee was using their company-issued resources to harass another individual, or hack an organization, potentially their employer could be liable. If the employee is sending out trade secrets, obviously that's bad for the company, or worse if the employee was sending out personal data, that would subject their employer to huge fines and some really bad publicity in the media.
In a lot of cases, companies would actually be violating Federal or State laws by not monitoring traffic.
