# Logging out **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [October 31, 2007, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/logging-out/424732 "2007-10-31T16:47:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/logging-out/424732/1 "2007-10-31T16:47:22Z")
Is is recommended that we log out at the end of each session, either for security purposes or to free up system resources? ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/logging-out/424732/2 "2007-10-31T17:04:49Z")
If you’re in a secure location, don’t think it makes that much of a difference. (Hal Briston may disagree with me about being secure at work, though.) Certainly if you’re accessing from a public location, you want to sign out. Or if it’s a shared computer. That’s just common sense and should be true of all your online activity and not just here. ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/logging-out/424732/3 "2007-10-31T17:46:44Z")
_snicker_ we’re not ever going to ever let him forget that are we? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/logging-out/424732/4 "2007-10-31T17:49:55Z")
Object lesson. Not meant to embarrass. If I worked with jokey people around my cubicle or shared an office with someone prone to do jerky things like that I’d be locking up my computer every time I walked across the room, even. (FTR I learned my lesson after a cow-orker changed my keyboard mapping to Dvorak. Try it yourself sometime.) ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/logging-out/424732/5 "2007-10-31T17:51:37Z")
[QUOTE=shijinn] _snicker_ we’re not ever going to ever let him forget that are we? 😃 [/QUOTE] Forget what? ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/logging-out/424732/6 "2007-10-31T17:53:38Z")
[QUOTE=shijinn] _snicker_ we’re not ever going to ever let him forget that are we? 😃 [/QUOTE] What happened? Tell me, tell me! Actually, if you feel like telling me, you can email me. **Hal** might not want to relive it. On the subject of logging out, I had a supervisor who, during a period when I was freelancing, wrote an email from my computer under my login, stating I was taking the blame (which I had theretofore refused to do) for a big screwup that was her fault. And there was nothing I could do about it. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/logging-out/424732/7 "2007-10-31T20:21:46Z")
Thaaaat’s right everyone…“forget what?” is exactly the attitude we all need to take about that…incident. ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/logging-out/424732/8 "2007-10-31T20:25:58Z")
[QUOTE=Hal Briston] Thaaaat’s right everyone…“forget what?” is exactly the attitude we all need to take about that…incident. [/QUOTE] Cool, I got the big fish to bite, didn’t even hardly have to set the hook… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/logging-out/424732/9 "2007-10-31T20:26:43Z")
Where you been, **Hal**? We figured you were on the lam… ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/logging-out/424732/10 "2007-10-31T20:39:04Z")
He’s a bit shee… Nope, nope, not gonna do it, nope. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/logging-out/424732/11 "2007-10-31T21:26:08Z")
Ewwwwwwww, that’s enough already.