An upshot to the "Twitter Files" nonsense is that employees are fools to communicate on employer IT systems.

But it would be absolute #infosec disaster for the company if employees used third parties'.

Better employee privacy protections needed to address this conflict.

@cathygellis Can you please expound on this?
Why are employees "fools" for communicating on employer IT systems?

In this particular instance (a billionaire shitposter bought the company and aired their dirty laundry), it ended poorly, but that seems more like an exception than a rule.

@LouisIngenthron Agree to some extent that it's exceptional, but I think without more effective regulation it may not be as exceptional going forward.

And there's always been a gap between how private employees think their communications are and how private they actually are. That vagueness has always been a problem, albeit maybe not one quite this big.

@cathygellis Idk, I think most people assume their boss has full access to all of their work media, and govern their speech accordingly

So long as one isn't doing anything illegal or fire-able, the company-run platforms are typically the most private and secure method of communication (for the company, anyway, not the employee). Using external systems opens the company up to a whole host of security and legal troubles. (Full disclosure, I've been a CTO running such systems in the past.)

Can you cite any examples where an employee was harmed for using company media while not doing anything wrong themselves?