On this topic Forums Discuss IT management Newsletters IDC's IT Forecaster. In keeping with the subject matter of this week's stories, I wanted to write a column about the best and worst in IT ethics for the past year. I'd like to think the Toysmart fiasco would qualify as worst, but that was so predictable it would have been like shooting fish in a barrel. Corporation has valuable asset.
Corporation goes belly up.
It was the heavy hammer, or the threat of one, wielded by government. Left to their own devices, the people settling Toysmart's estate would have sold out the customers in a heartbeat. Carnivore is the more dangerous of the two, despite any assurances the government might give us. It tests the limits of Constitutional protections, but at least with the government, we can theoretically bring pressure and make changes. The coming year will tell us more about Carnivore and its analogs, although I'm not hopeful the situation will improve.