Timeline for Should we modify the FAQ to include policy subversion as explicitly Off Topic?
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| Jan 4, 2012 at 21:24 | comment | added | voretaq7 | I'm all for workarounds (that come down to a viable business case) - of course they should be codified as policy exceptions so the auditors don't inflict pain and suffering... | |
| Jan 4, 2012 at 17:43 | comment | added | Shane Madden | @ChrisS Yeah, that's true - I was looking at it from the perspective of workarounds to technical issues. I can get behind voretaq's assessment, too. | |
| Jan 4, 2012 at 17:09 | comment | added | Holocryptic | Looking at it again, I think I was wrong in my earlier assertion and agree with @voretaq7 on this. | |
| Jan 4, 2012 at 16:20 | comment | added | voretaq7 | One can argue that the answer to policy avoidance type questions for a professional sysadmin is "Work with your organization to craft policy exceptions as necessary to support the business" -- If there's no official workaround that's what we seem to suggest (based on a wholly unscientific survey of instances of this sort of question that I've seen personally). | |
| Jan 4, 2012 at 16:19 | comment | added | Chris S | I'm trying to find a legitimate example of "avoidance", but the examples you've provided explicitly break the policy in question, and I'd VTC. Now if your firewall block HTTP, but there's no corporate policy to back that up, then I can see getting around it, as it's a technical problem, not a policy issue. | |
| Jan 4, 2012 at 16:04 | comment | added | Holocryptic | My thinking is though, that "people who manage or maintain computers in a professional capacity" may be a bit broad and leave enough wiggle room for just this kind of debate. We should squash it now and be done with it. | |
| Jan 4, 2012 at 16:03 | comment | added | Holocryptic | And the two questions you cite would remain open, as they are legitimate, professional questions. | |
| Jan 4, 2012 at 16:02 | comment | added | Holocryptic | While people will, of course, continue to post such questions, we can then point to the FAQ and say, "Um, that line right there says you're doing a no-no" and then close it for great justice. | |
| Jan 4, 2012 at 15:59 | history | answered | Shane Madden | CC BY-SA 3.0 |