> Companies also want their employees to be as productive as possible[...] I don't think any IT department worth their while would ban worthwhile software
This shows a disconnect / bubble. Lots of IT departments require permission to install any software, i.e., a whitelist, rather than the blacklist being proposed (and which is fine in this instance). Granted, many of those places don't care about their employees being as productive as possible (even if they tell themselves they do), and their IT departments aren't worth their salt, and this tends to be norm, unfortunately.
This shows a disconnect / bubble. Lots of IT departments require permission to install any software, i.e., a whitelist, rather than the blacklist being proposed (and which is fine in this instance). Granted, many of those places don't care about their employees being as productive as possible (even if they tell themselves they do), and their IT departments aren't worth their salt, and this tends to be norm, unfortunately.