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From: Jeff Makey (jeff@sdsc.edu)
Date: 07/19/02 

From: jeff@sdsc.edu (Jeff Makey)
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 03:33:29 +0000 (UTC)

In article <DX6Z8.34273$Iu6.1941870@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>,
Lohkee <lohkee@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>All I'm saying is that if you are going to assume a risk then it
>should be based on a sound (and documented) business reason.

Producing such documentation costs money that few businesses are willing
to spend, probably because they fail to see a sufficient potential
benefit from your proposed form of micromanagement. Your colorful
anecdotes of "Internet vandalism" are far outweighed by ordinary
everyday experiences of people using not-as-secure-as-they-could-be
personal computers to get their jobs done.

General-purpose computers with Internet access have joined telephones
and staplers as standard equipment on corporate desks, and crusading
to undo that is a waste of everybody's time.

                             :: Jeff Makey
                                jeff@sdsc.edu

Department of Tautological Pleonasms and Superfluous Redundancies Department

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