I'll admit to having a bias against using email ever since the company I work for was bought out by a large corporation, and our perfectly useful, secure imap server was replaced by an Exchange server that we have to run Windows inside a sandboxed VM in order to access it. (Unintended consequences strike again. Thanks, Sarbanes–Oxley.)
I'm not kidding.
Before the merger, to read my email, I fired up my client and read my email.
After the merger, to read my email, I:
- establish a VPN connection to the local office, using my "local" credentials (local ldap id/password)
- run remote desktop software to access a virtual machine running Windows 7 inside the office network
- establish a VPN connection to the corporate office, using my corporate credentials (secure token + pin)
- launch Outlook (as a contractor, I must use the full client, not Outlook Web Access) and sign in with my corporate ldap id/password, which are not synced with the local account.
On top of that, I probably have violated some policy just by posting this.
Any relationship between this byzantine process and batteries catching fire on airplanes is purely coincidental.
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