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Joe Stanganelli
Joe Stanganelli
3/23/2016 12:23:49 PM
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Re: Skype
Skype was one of the early free video-chat applications available.  They did a very good job branding themselves, and -- consequently -- Skype as a video-chat service continues to enjoy an enormous following today.

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Joe Stanganelli
Joe Stanganelli
3/23/2016 12:16:55 PM
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Re: How does Skype even work now?
@Ariella: I think I agree with you.  I really do wonder (I don't criticize the decision; I just wonder about it) about why PwC made the switch to Google at the cost of severely alienating Microsoft -- one of their major customers.  I'm curious what the factors of that decision were for the powers that be.

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dlr5288
dlr5288
3/21/2016 6:48:45 PM
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Re: Skype
Me too!

The only thing that I've ever really used Skype for are podcasts. I might have went on to video chat a handful of times in my life, but I did use it for podcasts. I'm not sure why so many people use Skype for that?

I don't see Skype pulliing the Smart TV App making such a difference, but hopefully it doesn't hurt them.

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Ariella
Ariella
3/21/2016 2:07:22 PM
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Re: How does Skype even work now?
@vnewman I understand the frustration you must have in working around the constraints. However, I know that the people who set it up are just trying to cover themselves and the make the systems as secure and compliant as possible. I've interviewed some people in charge of IT at organizations that deal with health information, financial data, etc., and their conservative stance is usually a function of both regulations and thier own caution abou the potential for loss of control in shadow IT applicatons. 

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mpouraryan
mpouraryan
3/21/2016 2:06:02 PM
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Re: How does Skype even work now?
..and to your end, Sean Parker's new venture to bring new Movie releases is also quite a transformational event that may end up take the wind out of pirated movies.    We have scratched the surface.   

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vnewman
vnewman
3/21/2016 1:39:12 PM
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Re: How does Skype even work now?
@Joe @Ariella - At our firm, we work with a lot of social security and credit cards numbers so there's security measures in place for almost anything and everything.  If a file goes out in an email that has either of things in it, it is automatically encrypted.  If you want to upload a file to an ftp site, it has to be on the approved list.  You can't even upload pictures to Shutterfly or any photo sharing sites.   You can download from Dropbox but not upload.  Google Drive, Docs, Gmail, etc are all blocked.

All personal email sites are blocked so you can't copy information from your computer into an email (but it doesn't stop you from sending it there).  You can't copy from your local computer to your Citrix session and vice-versa.  This is just the tip of the iceburg.  The list of contraints is long and exhausting, frankly.  And sometimes it gets in the way of doing business.

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Ariella
Ariella
3/21/2016 11:46:29 AM
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Re: How does Skype even work now?
@Joe Ah, the irony! I really get the sense that many of these security rules are more the product of particular biases of people who get to make the decisions than of objective data results.

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Ariella
Ariella
3/21/2016 11:20:55 AM
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Re: Skype
@faryl that's a very interesting question, and I would love to get the answer from you after you hear back from your brother. It's always good to get the information from the people who have to really live with the regulations in a practical sense. 

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batye
batye
3/21/2016 5:54:26 AM
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Re: Skype
@faryl  interesting to know, thanks for sharing :) keep us posted... - thanks

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Joe Stanganelli
Joe Stanganelli
3/21/2016 3:27:34 AM
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Re: How does Skype even work now?
> My firm blocks all of the Google products as they've been deemed a security risk by our auditors

Conversely, PwC -- one of the world's premiere auditors, by all yardsticks -- uses Google apps and products throughout their organization.

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