Originally Posted by
4A2B
I understand your viewpoint TonyC, but the CBA does not say a lot of things and the Company has the right to control access to it's business machines. You are correct that our CBA secures us "access" to the Computers but I see nothing that prevents the Company from making Infosec policies that require you to be a live person and not share or store your password in order to use said machines.
Magic disk and green screen may have worked that way before but that does not mean, IMHO, that the Company can't change their minds. Fact is that IT is way different than those years and I think it is bad advice to imply that there is nothing wrong with remote access to ViPs any longer since they have made a clear statement. To do so now puts those users at risk and we do not need more pilots fired.
With regards to my comment about CAPTCHA codes and whether the response should be supplied by a human or a program ...
I am not prohibited from storing my password and my eGrid on a secure computer. Therefore, if I open my laptop and click one button to log on the pilot.fedex.com automatically, I have violated no policy. They may have
intended for me to read the CAPTCHA and look at my eGrid and enter three alpha-numeric characters manually, but if my program does it for me automatically, so be it. If they want to make a rule that requires me to enter it manually, that's another story.
I am also not advising that pilots access VIPS remotely. I am simply stating that The Company's claim that remote access is a problem is a fabrication on their part. It was never a problem before, and when done from secure computers now it should not pose a problem -- except that they're having bandwidth issues.
My bottom line is that we should be pushing back against The Company and not against each other.
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