Sony “stuck in 1992″ after hacks – except for Macs, iPads and iPhones

Wow. I don’t know what kind of companies you’ve worked for, but that is exactly the expectation everywhere that I’ve worked. Company computers are for company work with company software, and that’s all. A small amount of personal email or web access might be permissible, but installing software not licensed to the company is strictly forbidden. This is for several reasons, namely, security and legal protection from pirated or unlicensed software.

In the age of smartphones, there’s almost no reason an employee needs to perform any personal tasks on company IT assets.

Hey, I would love to read tech threads without snobby cultist with a creepy love affair with Apple not have to demonstrate that they are not capable of thinking past the nonsense memes, stereotypes, outdated talking points, and general lack of tech knowledge about anything outside of Apple either.

You won't find that in general tech threads. The only Apple comments will be responses to stupid comments like yours where you post idiotic nonsense memes, stereotypes and outdated talking points, and general lack of tech knowledge about anything about Apple.

Sadly Apple users on FR can barely chuck out a sentence without doing one of those things. Maybe you should have a talk with them to take it down a notch, and then you wont have people actually have the nerve to counter their BS.

Sadly, you can not post on FR or chuck out a sentence on an Apple thread without doing one of those things. Maybe you should have a talk with yourself to convince yourself to take it down a whole lot of notches, and then we won't have to counter YOUR completely ignorant and repeated BS.

They were more concerned with company data being copied outside the company. That’s why you couldn’t write to any USB device, and all emails sent were monitored for keywords, such as social security numbers and account numbers.

You could send such data to customers for business purposes, but you had to encrypt it. The customer was directed to a web page to decrypt his email.

As for software, never mind it being licensed to the company. Your supervisor had to approve it and say it was necessary for your work.

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