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I can hear IT salivating. Cut-and-paste will be disabled and I will have to manually transcribe from StackOverflow. Like many enterprise things, this will be a
by civilized 5y ago
I can hear IT salivating. Cut-and-paste will be disabled and I will have to manually transcribe from StackOverflow.
Like many enterprise things, this will be a lose-lose. Jobs will be harder, but no one will be more secure. No one will even get a bonus for pretending to make something more secure.
I guess that faceless IT group in every company that loves locking things down will get some sort of satisfaction. Not sure if that counts as a win.
- mistrial9 5y agolike Medium does ?
- civilized 5y agoNothing makes your platform scream "legacy" like disabling cut-and-paste. No wonder they're getting wiped out by Substack.
- NovemberWhiskey 5y agoNo-one cares about you copying from the web; they care about you pasting to the web.
- ocdtrekkie 5y agoAs a faceless member of the IT department, we generally only lock something down because someone has found a way to do something really dumb with it. For copy/paste, I can already tell you: We blocked installing Grammarly because there's no reasonable guarantee of what happens to the sensitive data we are legally obligated not to share, so people copy/paste sensitive data into Grammarly's website. Now we have to block Grammary's website, but I could see someone giving up and taking away pasting into websites as a next step...
- civilized 5y agoI will admit that this does make sense.
- ocdtrekkie 5y agoMore often than not we have a reason for it. I can say I try really hard not to be HR: We tend to look the other way on any activity that isn't a security risk. Though sometimes one can turn into another: I once ignored someone's attempt to run a game on a PC of ours. Turns out it was a hacked version of a game which had malware injected, and when it got blocked, they tried installing VPNs and Wireshark to try to get around our security methods... If you have any questions about presumed oppressive IT policies, I'd be happy to give you my take on them. Some folks do indeed go nuts with it, but often I think the reasons why just aren't obvious at first glance.