That's all very well for, dare I say, the likes of us who deal intimately on a daily basis with all sorts of technologies at all sorts of levels. We understand the dangers that come with unfettered access - at least from a technical perspective - and (hopefully) act accordingly.
Your average corporate citizen isn't so well versed - for example I heard of a situation several years ago where an employee in a company managed to share his entire company machine hard drive using an internet file sharing client and had no idea he'd done this until the new software installation was flagged by a software auditing package. It only takes the ill-judged actions of one person (however well intended) to cause the corporate IT and/or lawyers to bolt down access tighter than tight and you can see why it ends up that way. Personally I'm inclined to side with them - non IT-Savvy people do need protecting from themselves (once took a call from somebody complaining he couldn't access the company intranet from his WiFi enabled laptop, turned out he was in his car 20 miles from the network, no 3G data connection or anything - no, really). > ... > > Most of those constraints I would remove. I know security is a big > issue but a lot of companies are cutting down productivity far too > much. Security often comes along with drawbacks in efficiency (not > talking about using SSL connections rather than unencrypted ones - > this is an easy gain of security without a negative effect > efficiency). > > ... > -- > Martin Wildam -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
