Jinx Barker
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Posted - 2006.05.07 14:18:00 -
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For a CEO or a half decent Security Chief, the Screen Shot request is ultimately a first step in establishing a small degree of security for the corporation.
Instead of complaining about the corporation and their request perhaps you ought to lament the overall reasons for this policy. It has become obvious over the years that some people enjoy playing an underhanded game and to rip off EVE corporations.
I am sure you have heard of GHSC and IstvaanÆs little experiments in social mechanics. I believe it has netted him and his corporation tens of billions, if not hundreds of billions.
Fact is, what GHSC does (and is famous for) is a legitimate tactic, the corporations, CEOs and Security Directors have taken the next logical step, and that is Screen Shoting every potential member, having application forms, elaborate questionnaires designed to trip you up, and have you slip some information out, small indicator if you are an ALT or a spy.
You should be lamenting that trust, if it ever existed in EVE, is gone.
Anyway, when people apply to my corporation I always ask for a screen shot of their login screen. Most understand and are happy to oblige, some are bewildered and I have to explain the reasons behind it. Some have refused and they never got accepted.
Fact is, I know my CEO personally for years now. He would trust me with anything and I would trust him with anything, any ISK any BPOs, anything at all. But, thatÆs where it stops, no one else beside him and myself will ever have access to anything sensitive in the ôSecureö hangar. And you know what? Most guys understand it and accept it. They know that perhaps some time down the road, once we really know each other it might change, till then it is an accepted reality.
Here are some mottos by which I lead my EVE life:
If you are not paranoid, then you are not paying attention.
Only the paranoid survive.
Nothing is what it seems.
EVE is very harsh to those who are not security conscious, and to those who are lax or too trusting.
If you are unhappy with the system, then try to look for a corporation that does not require a Screen Shot, or some other ways of establishing a trust, whatever it might be. But the situation will remain the same with Screen Shot requests, and it will never change.
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