Unlike the world you work in, there are ways to enforce compliance that go beyond standard disciplinary action. That tends to assure that people don't do their own thing.
Completely OT - bedtime for children
May 12, 2011
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Which results in computers running ancient versions of software with well-known security flaws.
There are areas to work in where what may be a bit daft in another job can get you jail time. Messing about with computers in anything connected to a nuclear facility is likely to be on that list :-)
At least known flaws can be addressed.
SteveW
Well, you just paste that into Word. :P
Andy
Really? How about this?
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Just about anything running WINE if you don't have 'Doze.
The last time I looked, Office wouldn't run under Wine (unless you buy the CrossOver version) so do the Office viewers?
At least one sort of runs, according to this:-
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Iff you are allowed to install the patches, which seems to be a time consuming process in your organisation. Therefore many known vulnerabilities could be left for quite a while.
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