PRIVACY
Cameo is the latest in a growing line of email-monitoring software packages that let employers peek at workers' messages in search of "inappropriate" activity. (According to the American Management Association, about 30 percent of major US companies snoop on their employees' electronic messages.) Designed for use with the Microsoft Exchange Server, the dominant corporate email platform, Cameo can sift through as many as 50,000 emails an hour, comparing the text with a list of user-specified keywords. When a match is found, the entire message, including attachments, is forwarded to a designated manager. Here's a sampling of the hot-button words, according to Cameo's manufacturer, MicroData Group, that companies are searching for in their workers' not-so-private emails.
bimbo
alarm pad
David Duke
resume
fondle
ATF
job offer
ammonium nitrate
reefer
I'll show him/her
fertilizer
anarchy
signing bonus
bacteriological
meth
copyright
Puerto Rican
stress
pipe bombs
unfair
Aryan
performance review
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