Would be super strange if titles always referred to the top-most parent company. Every time Google does something the title should be referring to Alphabet? Please no.
The other way around, and in fact it already is that way -- we often say stuff like "Waymo, Google's self-driving car project", because we know who really runs the alphabet show.
At my employer the issue is the opposite. They don't value security so they disable all firewalls, encryption, 2FA and everything else in favor of ease-of-use. My concern isn't that people will have a hard time working from home, my concern is that whatever malware they have at home is now also roaming the company network.
Let's dig a huge gaping hole into that infrastructure with a VPN and BYOD. And when it doesn't work, blame IT support for not properly supporting my dusty old Windows XP installation. Sure.
What you want is separation, though for real work it quickly becomes impractical. So there are special rules for something, and suddenly, everybody are running on those not-so-special rules anymore.
IT security is still mostly about people and awareness at this point.
Tap the Sign on with Apple button. Native dialog pops up with two sections. First section shows your name with an edit button. You can change your first and last name to whatever you want. Second section has two radio buttons, provide your real email address or provide a proxy address. Click continue. Done.
Or perhaps zero mess, and this is just a good way to acquire all the patents and later they can merge either the companies or the teams behind them to produce what TB envisions. Tha scarier name I saw in their companies' list is BlueCoat. That is some nasty (good nasty) stuff.
I am still (proudly) using the McAfee Antivirus Enterprise edition on my Win Pro machine. It has (imho) the best options/flexibility. I also remember that the respective firewall was also super strong and very versatile but I can't get my hands on any latest version of it (I have the AV legally).
My understanding is that Windows Defender is the only decent engine nowadays, but that's second-hand anecdata I can't measure the bias of (I don't currently use Windows).
The fact that US users have no real say regarding these kinds of things doesn't mean that we should actively support these incompetent companies. That would be absurd.
What percentage of traffic to this local Portland news station do you think are European users? How does not catering to them, but respecting their self-declared privacy standards by not letting them see the site, make them incompetent?
Also, I don't really understand how US users don't have a say in their government, but EU users do.
> Remember autoexec.bat files? Remember endless configuration to get one program working? Remember the computer just throwing its hands up and giving up when you gave it input that wasn't exactly what it expected? Remember hardware compatibility issues and how badly it affected system stability?
Maybe my memory is bad but I seem to have the same issues today, just in different shapes.
The operating system choose to update itself in the middle of me typing a document and then 15 minutes later while in a conference meeting the app decides that a new version is immediately required. Then I open up a prompt and the text is barely readable because the screen DPI is somehow out of sync with something else and now the anti-aliasing (?) renders stuff completely broken. According to Google there are 31 ways to solve this but none of them works on my PC. Then all the Visual Studio addins decide to use a bit much memory so in the middle of the debug process the debugger goes on a coffee break and the just disappear. In the afternoon I need to update 32 NPM dependencies due to vulnerabilities and 3 had simply disappeared. Weird.
