ICQ? Wow, I think we just had a post arrive through a wormhole from the 1990s.
Yes even ICQ, I still contact many people via ICQ, ok I am using Trillian but some people do not want to change their chat clients.
Wrong on number two. Valve did not tell its Steam users about this intrusion. They did not send out any emails or Steam IMs to their members, they didn't mention this on the Steam news page, and in fact they didn't mention it anywhere on Steam at all. The only place this intrusion is mentioned is on the forum. They're happy as punch to tell me through Steam that I can buy freaking Wallace and Gromit for 66% off but they don't inform me that all that my personal information has been compromised? That is shameful.
When you start steam it provides you this message in the main popup box where they normally try to sell you preorder crap.
If we use exactly the same standard that they use to judge what should be public information, then the names, email addresses, and passwords of everyone who calls himself/herself Anonymous should be public as well.
Ah you opened the door to the obligatory link
Why is this modded funny?
Because you are asking addicts to give up their crack and expecting them to say "oh ok sorry about that".
It seem not jut your information, but also you friends.
I noticed this for some apps:
Access my friends' information Birthdays, Religious and political views, Family members and relationship statuses, Significant others and relationship details, Home towns, Current locations, Likes, music, TV, movies, books, quotes, Activities, Interests, Education history, Work history, Online presence, Websites, Groups, Events, Notes, Photos, Videos, Photos and videos of them, 'About me' details and Facebook statuses
Why on earth would Facebook want to give this information to third parties, and worse to ones you have not given permission to, but your friend has.
Because you cannot sell what nobody want's to buy, information is what they can sell, the real question is why do people want to buy this information.
You're in IT. Like it or not, you're SUPPORT staff - your job solely consists of helping me do mine. If I damned well want to use my computer to do X it's your job to make this possible. That's what you are paid for. I'm sure you could keep a nice little network if it weren't for us users doing annoying things like using our computers to do work. If I want to run MATLAB from home, you make it damned possible for me to do that. If I want my email in a separate Thunderbird folder on my laptop, you do that. Otherwise there's no point in having you.
I'm sure this will come as a shock to a lot of you, but it isn't the goal of every enterprise to have a neat little network. And the time I spend having to get my password reset because the bit monkey insists that I change it every 6 weeks and that it contain at least 10 letters, 2 numbers and 2 non-alphanumeric characters? That's time wasted from me making money that keeps us all in business.
To put it bluntly: I don't give a damn what you're happy with - it's what I'M happy with that counts. Do your job well and you're a force multiplier, but remember that your function is to multiply MY output.
I think this is a major part of the problem, many people in IT seem to forget that they are there to help, much of the enforcement actually makes IT a department nobody want's to deal with. This has the impact that people try hard to work around the IT people all the time which creates an unhelpful environment. This then causes a knee jerk reaction to increase the enforcement which becomes a self fulfilling prophecy where IT support is considered at best unhelpful at worst useless.
As the distance between enforcing control and helping people is getting larger, it is no surprise that many IT departments get outsourced and yes in the majority of cases this made the situation worse because it is much harder dealing with essentially another company that has different goals to yours.
I do not know what the solution might be, but perhaps allowing the user more control is at least a step in the correct direction.
A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable. -- Thomas Jefferson
