More truths about IT

摘要

Following last week's column "The truth about IT," Anon dropped me a line suggesting an addendum to Item 5,"Security is a pipe dream":"5a.The manager busting your [hump] for'military-level security' is going to complain loudly the first time the system says he needs to change his password and he discovers he cannot change it right back to his son's name." Anon also threw in a new item:"7.9% of CEOs won't get what IT does for the company While the engineering staff will be getting bonuses for shipping buggy code one month late, IT will get no recognition for keeping a Byzantine network running with little or no budget and with practically no interruptions. But IT will get hammered because Exchange went down and needed two hours of coaxing before it was back (never mind that the guy busting your hump about that was the one who insisted on Exchange in the first place)."