Time to lock the security team in a hotel room?
IT security has laptops at this company really locked down, and that includes only limited admin rights, reports a road warrior pilot fish.
"On a recent trip, at my hotel I had to make an internet connection and open a web page to log into the hotel's internet service before I could get a connection to the real internet," fish says.
"Problem was, the work laptop was not going to let me use the browsers until I had established a VPN connection, which of course I could not do without the web page login.
"In a way, that was good -- I took some real vacation time.
"In another way, it was bad, I have big hands and fingers, so using an iPhone and those stupid virtual keyboards is a one-finger, error-prone task. An email that could take seconds to type on a full-size keyboard takes minutes on the phone.