Back Orifice (BO) as a Legitimate Business Tool
RE: "Computer viruses and pranks and such cost corporations $billions every year. You can't ignore the value of something that lets you run questionable software safely." Mike Milde
While hackers are known to be pranksters by promoting general disruptions to call attention to themselves, individual users have specific career interests they may wish to protect without calling attention to themselves.
The fact that Back Office does not otherwise disrupt the functioning of the system is quite laudable. Presumably, any long term security lapses in Microsoft's software, if not there by mistake, are actually technologically innovative features placed there intentionally with the full knowledge and awareness of the manufacturer.
Its interesting to note that any slightly above average office employee is now empowered to run an exhaustively complete selection of the very best security hacks available through a familiar Windows type graphics interface that opens on to a nifty consolidated control panel featuring various drop down menus loaded with undetectable security-defeating options, and all with just a simple click of the mouse.
One can only assume that the potential impact of the various new security options now available to BO users are clearly presented in the BO program documentation. And, as is always the case with new and wonderful technology, one can only hope that this new empowerment will be used, as usual, with discretion and for the benefit of all mankind.
The potential here is enormous. No longer will workers be able to waste valuable time on company computers, undermine management over email, or perform non-productive actions such as typing intermittently or slowly.
On the other hand, employees will no longer be tyrannized by managers who guard their opinions or delay essential communications such as departmental reorganizations and performance reviews. Certainly exposing the reasoning and peculiarities behind the allocation of bonuses, pay raises, and promotions will make management seem much more rational and human to all involved.
Additionally, Back Orifice, if used with clever discretion, will give the motivated employee, rather than the boss, the last say in what personal performance, promotion, and pay raise recommendations are communicated to upper management. In fact, I see in just this one capability the possibility of eliminating an entire level of non-essential supervisory management.
And, that's just benefits within the company. Externally, I see Back Orifice completely revolutionizing the world of sealed bidding and even the very art of commercial negotiation.
Microsoft and Back Orifice, hand in hand, brave new world! Having only just begun our journey into the information age, we now enter the era of perfect information.
I'm all choked up. Gotta' run ...
Hal |
