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by praptak 2676 days ago
I am not sure why this got downvoted, it is a valid question which got an informative response.
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Because it's a hyperbolic rhetorical question. Security teams don't just unilaterally ban things without context, especially things that provide significant business value. It's about threat modeling and what the risk is in practice for the company and use case in question.
Good security teams*. I have definitely experienced overzealous bad security.