Sorry, folks. I'll have to agree with the World War X concept. The handwriting has been on the walls for years (for those who would take the time to read it).

I work for a Fortune 500 company whose control of information technology has reached what many would call "the point of absurdity", but which the stockholders call "a real cost-savings." Software installations on local computers on the company's intRAnet are monitored AND managed by an all-seeing eye called Novell Netware's Zen for Desktops. Bill Gates & Co have a competing product, of course. Yes, it saves money where licensing is concerned. Yes, it provides ABSOLUTE control over what gets installed on the user's machine. NO, it is not perfect. Just let some schmuck mess up a delivery package and OOPS-the application UNINSTALLS ITSELF. Yes, ZFD takes snapshots of the user's registry at random intervals (in order to monitor compliance with the "no personal software" mandate). No, you can't install your own software. No, you can't refuse to use the machine-it's a "condition of your continued employment."

What Enron did for the Sarbanes/Oxley Act (which, please see), terrorist groups have done for the Fed's control over the intERnet.

I am just waiting for the other foot to fall.

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