Re:Ask HN: My company is now disallowing Dropbox...
by petervandijck on Friday February 25, 2011 @03:29AM
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Security is not goal in itself, although many IT types seem to think it is. As you note in your second paragraph, it's a sliding scale, to be weighted against productivity etc.
At the same time, a lot of people email sensitive documents into and out of enterprises without any sort of encryption. I'm not sure which is worse.
(no, I'm not a enterprise IT guy :-)