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Surfing returns to civil servants' work PCs, but user naivety needs to be tackled

A small group of public servants handling classified information will still not be able to surf on their work computers. ST PHOTO: GAVIN FOO
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Some 108,000 civil servants will welcome being able to surf the Internet on their work computers - after four years of using a separate device to plug in to the Web.

The privilege has not been extended to everybody. A small group of 18,000 public servants handling classified information will still not be able to surf on their work computers. This points to a much larger issue at play: users' naivety.

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on October 16, 2020, with the headline Surfing returns to civil servants' work PCs, but user naivety needs to be tackled. Subscribe