>>And worse than that, I've seen SyGate firewall replaced with its descendant, ZoneAlarm, which has about half of its teeth removed and replaced with gui candy. And even worse than that, I've seen Skype replaced with Skype.
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>Now this one is outright scary;
>Company in UK got sold off to US corporation. US corporation in turn have FoxPro code on its (black)list of potentially harmful softwares. They now ask source code so corporation 'experts' can examine if it can be harmful to their infrastructure.
>They will perhaps have their noses protected by white masks, their eyebrows all the way up their long faces, while they carefully sift through thousands and thousands of lines of framework and application code to identify potential threats..

The best gig in IT is if you can get to do IT police aka security. You aren't really responsible for anything; your only job is to make life miserable to your charges, so that they know you're doing it for real. You don't announce anything you do, you don't care if you break anything that was working so far, you don't even need to know what was working, you don't ask anyone's permission and yet everyone has to go through proper channels to get permission from you. There's no QA breathing down your neck and watching over your shoulder, and you don't care if you make system slower than ever. Perfect.