Re:Ask HN: My company is now disallowing Dropbox...
by petervandijck on Friday February 25, 2011 @03:32AM
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Really, your best bet is to route around them. I may be a techie but I have little respect for corporate IT, sorry. Instead of focusing on increasing productivity, they always seem to focus on increasing their control (in order to not loose their jobs), and to increase "security". They don't remind me of hackers, they remind me of airport scanners and laywers.
Re:Ask HN: My company is now disallowing Dropbox...
by benhedrington on Thursday February 24, 2011 @09:03PM
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I hear the control part but what control is there really... Don't you think the physical files on the laptop of the average corporate worker are more likely to be compromised than dropbox itself?
Not sure companies will survive and be competent if it all goes this way...
Do we need FDIC (from the banking world) for data?
Your best bet is to find some white-label/internal solution similar to dropbox and get your IT guys to install it... but it'll be tough to convince them that the benefits outweigh the costs (everything IT does costs 10x more than you think it should).