A few of these are reasonable. Most are ridiculous. What they are doing is instilling a blanket policy across all employees, no matter the job function. They are treating you like a call center employee. You are a software developer (I assume), you shouldn't be treated like a dumbass. And fact is, if your are a software dev - you probably know enough to easily bypass most/all of these measures anyway.
Banning IM and Skype are silly. Do they ban cell phones/SMS? Same thing really. software tracking? Fairly standard, prevents piracy. this makes sense actually. Virus checking is important for windows, no prob there - although they should let devs configure exclude dirs. Virus checkers can KILL a windows box! And they are just asking devs to hack their machines and turn it completely off (I bet many do). iTunes banned? Eh? Why? Encrypted harddrives? Sounds like a clueless exec paranoid about IP. Almost no code IP is worth anything to an outsider. Seriously, who is going to bother to try and figure out a competitor's code-base? Sounds like a huge PITA to me. For a CFO/CEO, I can understand wanting to have an encrypted HD. BTW, the overhead of encryption on a dev machine is very high. Manual proxies are a sign of an incompetent IT dept. Who in this day still makes people manually configure a proxy? What a pain - many apps don't use IE's system settings so you are in a constant config battle if you are on/off the corporate network. No SAAS? heh. just old school thinking..... I think it's silly almost every corp still uses in-house Email. Fact is Gmail rocks and is much more reliable, spam/virus free than any in-house managed email. Legal reasons? I'm no lawyer... maybe there are laws out there... On Feb 27, 1:24 pm, "phil.swen...@gmail.com" <phil.swen...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am curious... I work for a large software vendor and our policies > are: > > -windows only (XP) > -outside IM is banned (we have internal jabber server) > -mandatory software that tracks every piece of software installed on > your machine > -manual proxy that tracks every outgoing web url (no banned urls tho) > -skype is strictly forbidden > -no use of SaaS software for company information > -virus checker on every machine, including servers (kills performance > on builds) > -encrypted harddrives > -itunes is banned > -VPN policy forces all traffic to be routed over internet > > The reasons behind this are supposedly that the company must track all > information for legal purposes. > > So I'm curious - do companies like Google, Oracle, Microsoft, Intel > have policies like this? -- 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.
