[Corrado]

In a previous job I was told to stay away from any "hacking" web sites because they watch everything. I didn't read Hacker News at work for 3 months.

Thankfully, I got laid off from that job and now have a much better one where I'm encouraged to read all the hacker stuff I can. :)

[jrockway]

Yeah, I hear this from time to time. My guess is that it is too much work to read every site every employee reads. When it comes time to fire them, though, then they go through your browsing history so they can fire you for reading "hacking web sites" instead of "not doing any work". Just speculating, but I'm having trouble imagining a department where the reading habits of 300,000 employees are analyzed in real time.