I worked at a company where everyone would try and send an email to themselves from an unlocked PC. That mail contained a heads up that the victim willl bring cake into the office e.g. next tuesday. They then were typically forwarded to the whole team while thanking them for their generosity.

It really hammered that lesson home and the victims did honor the cake-mails. Only downside was, that this led to people to tryimg to bait each other into leaving their PCs unlocked and creative countermeasures, such as delaying mails containing the word 'cake'.

[–] GiveOver@feddit.uk 38 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Exactly, it's my own version of teaching cyber security!

I recently set somebody's homepage to meatspin.com and they snitched on me to the boss because they were worried they'd get pulled up for visiting NSFW websites. The boss just said "Why was your PC unlocked?"

[–] markz@suppo.fi 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Maybe your work atmosphere is different, but if I showed meatspin to a coworker, it would be considered pretty fucking weird and inapproproate.

[–] GiveOver@feddit.uk 17 points 1 day ago

Oh yeah I definitely wouldn't recommend doing this unless you're comfortable with all your colleagues!

[–] chellomere@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Ah, I might try this 😂 my current strategy is to install and run xneko on coworkers' computers when they forget to lock their screen, so they will have a cat running after their mouse pointer.

[–] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

We used beer, but same idea.