Unrestricted Secure Computing
Greg Madden, John B. Tyndall · 2014
Information technology (IT) departments have historically enforced security on end-user computers through a combination of software agents that restrict what the computer can do, mandate particular actions on the part of the user, report various pieces of information back to IT, and regularly check for and apply updates, as well as policy restrictions that tell the computer user the various ways in which they are not allowed to use their own machine. From a user perspective, this can be summarized as: IT takes a perfectly good computer and refuses to let you use it until they load it up with bloatware and tell you what you aren't allowed to do. Because of this, IT is often seen as making computers less useful rather than more useful, i.e., IT is the "Department of No."