It's articles like this that make me think "where are we heading"? Consider this, all the information Bono is trying to reference is pure speculation, and has no substantiation. In the past, I've downloaded music, movies, etc., but ultimately I purchased them, and even more. My iTunes purchased collection is now over 2500 songs/music video's - far more than I've ever downloaded for free in the past. Grow up Bono! Maybe you'll find what your looking for - like generating more money via concerts - now that's something worth purchasing :-)

Under no circumstances should any developer in any organization today have corporate production administrative rights. Its simply not needed. As a developer and a security specialist, there's a lot of ways to get by this. First, you can create an isolated domain in a development environment, or even create a production domain that they can have admin rights to - other than the corporate production domain. Adding developers to the production administrative group is dangerous and all too often leads to problems. Just a few weeks ago at a friends company, a developer went into MS DNS and wanted to change a DNS entry, and ended up deleting several entries that brought down the Exchange server. At that same company a few months back, another developer wanted to add a static entry in DHCP but accidently deleted a scope that brought down a production site. There's just too much freedom for error.

I'm a security consultant for a very large corporation, and every weekend I was coming home to find my three kids computers infected with something, from the MS IE Browser hijacked to viruses. They would complain how slow it was, and all too often things would break. Finally one day, I had enough. I want the weekends free! I ripped out the WIndows laptops and got all three kids and the wife an Apple laptop - and I haven't had a problem since. I'm not in any way implying Apple is more secure than Windows - IT IS. I don't have hijacked browsers, registry corruption, viruses, malware, bloat ware, etc. It just works and it's been working for the last two years. If you want to maintain your sanity and get away from being the Family IT Guy, don't run Windows in my opinion.