http://blog.dotbot.net/articles/tag/trust?tag=trust en-us 40 dotcom Thousandaire <p>Having worked at some places with what I would call &#8220;restrictive access policies&#8221; regarding internet sites and ports that can be accessed, as well as the software and configuration of computers issued to employees, I am led to the following question for companies that develop software:</p> <blockquote> <p><i>If you do not trust your software developers with their own computer, how can you trust them to write the software products you sell?</i></p> </blockquote> <p>If you are worried about me setting up my own printers, or installing software on my computer, or where I browse, then how can you trust the commercial software that I write for you? Sure, there are criminal penalties for the latter, but are you saying that the only way I will behave in a lawful manner is under pain of imprisonment?</p> Tue, 03 Oct 2006 20:38:00 +0000 urn:uuid:096e8a28-22ab-4dda-bc00-223137f3d840 Jonathan Altman http://blog.dotbot.net/articles/2006/10/03/it-versus-software-development technical software IT trust security