POLL Google has revealed that its internal anti-malware tools include a “social voting” scheme that lets staff vouch for code they want to install won’t do any damage.
The ad and search giant’s rationale is that blocking all unknown software works but may limit productivity, while blocking only known unsafe software requires a lot of vetting.
“The obvious difficulty is that the more freedom you want to allow over the software your workforce can install outside your pre-vetted software, the more unmanageable the policy becomes,” wrote Max Saltonstall, a developer advocate at Google Cloud.
Google’s answer is code called Upvote that it’s just posted to GitHub.
“Upvote consists of both a web-based frontend for user voting and a ..
Support the originator by clicking the read the rest link below.
