My gut feeling is that this kind of question is really more appropriate for The Workplace than Server Fault. The core issue is more "How do I get management to come to their senses?" rather than "how do I mitigate this bad decision Management is forcing on me?"
That doesn't mean this is a "bad question", but I'm having trouble seeing how the solutions are technical when the core problem is political. It boiles down to "you can slap all the technical roadblocks in front of the boss that you want to, but he signs the check and if he says to take them down you do as you're told or you go pound sand."
