The funny thing is that they block Dropbox but then there are plenty of shady upload sites that aren’t blocked. We don’t use them because we think they aren’t secure but our IT guys would have no problem with that.
That highlights a problem woven through the industry which is that the IT department isn’t always the sharpest team in the building, even on security matters.
It's worse than that. I haven't met an IT person yet that wasn't as smart as the developers they worked with, except in slightly different domain. But the incentive structures are aligned in a way that makes IT's real job to execute cover-your-ass directives which freeze work. Doing the right thing is literally the opposite of what IT is being paid for.
