On Saturday, June 20, 2020 at 4:46:46 PM UTC-7, TW Tones wrote: > > This is actual quite a big subject, I would be happy to look at this with > you at length. Let me however make a few points that may lead you to a > solution first. >
Your points are all valid. However, the specific problem here is the organizational culture. University IT departments tend to be very inflexible and overly cautious about the technology that they allow. They are extremely defensive about their control of the IT environment (even more so than in the corporate business world). My sister is a professor (University of Virginia, as well as several online institutions of higher learning), and she faces this issue all the time. Perhaps it is because the IT folks are working with a combination of non-technical educators that can easily screw up their systems, as well as highly-technical educators that often know more about the technology than they do. In either case, their jobs are hanging by a thread and it takes a VERY long time (months or even years!) to get even the most simple IT changes approved and implemented. Trying to convince the IT department to add more security technologies won't work because the problem isn't technical... it's social. The only hope is to find a senior IT person who is secure enough in their position, and has enough power in the organization to be willing to entertain new possibilities and procedures. -e -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/11d32be9-fc3e-4409-a7d0-b2ead9fe7e3bo%40googlegroups.com.
