Are you serious? While the role of the IT administrator isnt to be a total dick to users, it is not the role of IT to bow to users to make them happy. My job as a network administrator for three different clients is to provide functional systems to accomplish the business tasks for which they were purchased, end of story. If me locking them out of porn sites, or shopping sites as per the owners request reduces moral, they need to see a psychologist about their personal issues because these "tools" werent purchased for their entertainment or moral. In order for me to provide these functional tools and keep them running as efficiently as possible, we have put in policies that lock the software down to exactly the software that they should be using for work, nothing more. I have had 0 known comprimises across the systems maintained by these policies, as they protect the user from their lack of understanding what is safe to click and what isnt. If you depend on security vendors to protect your systems in the future, your going to be in sad shape. How do you know what is in that source code? I suggest you read the incident regarding Sony/BMG's content protection to see exactly what i mean about not knowing what your getting.

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