I've been a professional developer for about 6 years now. My users have been subjected to everything from aggressive logon scripts, to software that actively replaces system (more than just.reg) changes (ie: Sabre)
The best thing for "IT" to do with the developers (hey, aren't many of the developers PART of the IT talent ???) is to let them run free. The help(less) desks are typically useless for anything outside of the normal daily user issues anyway, so why expect the HELLdesk to support the more complex problems that we as developers encounter ? Have the developers support themselves. If a developer needs infrastructure or other support, they typically know who to call (or they can then ask the HD for who to call). Things get accomplished efficiently in an organization often times because of the personal relationships people have, not because of some pointy-headed lockdown policy that gets imposed on the team.
Best of luck convincing your bosses;)
There are no famous hackers
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Amen, G !!! but if/when they bring in the lawyers, I hope they know that lawyers are like sharks, they don't discriminate about what they consume (I'de like to see the disabilities act applied here to squash these bastards)
In 20+ years of being involved in technology I've seen this type of battle play out a thousand times... in the end it always an exercise in creation and imagination.
Adders abused cookies to track people: someone wrote code to clean them out.
Nagware added obtrusive messages to shareware: (some) people distributed cracks {support shareware!}
Protectionists wrote errors onto disk to protect software: We wrote software to duplicate the errors;) {ok, this was done back in the 80's to stuff on 5.25 floppies and they are trying it again with CDs, some people Never learn!)
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I've been a professional developer for about 6 years now. My users have been subjected to everything from aggressive logon scripts, to software that actively replaces system (more than just .reg) changes (ie: Sabre)
The best thing for "IT" to do with the developers (hey, aren't many of the developers PART of the IT talent ???) is to let them run free. The help(less) desks are typically useless for anything outside of the normal daily user issues anyway, so why expect the HELLdesk to support the more complex problems that we as developers encounter ? Have the developers support themselves. If a developer needs infrastructure or other support, they typically know who to call (or they can then ask the HD for who to call). Things get accomplished efficiently in an organization often times because of the personal relationships people have, not because of some pointy-headed lockdown policy that gets imposed on the team.
Best of luck convincing your bosses ;)
There are no famous hackers
.
.
.
Amen, G !!! but if/when they bring in the lawyers, I hope they know that lawyers are like sharks, they don't discriminate about what they consume (I'de like to see the disabilities act applied here to squash these bastards)
;) {ok, this was done back in the 80's to stuff on 5.25 floppies and they are trying it again with CDs, some people Never learn!)
In 20+ years of being involved in technology I've seen this type of battle play out a thousand times... in the end it always an exercise in creation and imagination.
Adders abused cookies to track people: someone wrote code to clean them out.
Nagware added obtrusive messages to shareware: (some) people distributed cracks {support shareware!}
Protectionists wrote errors onto disk to protect software: We wrote software to duplicate the errors
[minor rant mode off]
Dave T.