{"id":74,"date":"2007-01-30T00:18:30","date_gmt":"2007-01-30T05:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raffy.ch\/blog\/2007\/01\/30\/the-universal-agent\/"},"modified":"2007-01-30T00:18:30","modified_gmt":"2007-01-30T05:18:30","slug":"the-universal-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raffy.ch\/blog\/2007\/01\/30\/the-universal-agent\/","title":{"rendered":"The Universal Agent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am still waiting for that one company which is going to develop the <strong>univeral<\/strong> agent!<\/p>\n<p>What am I talking about? Well, there is all this agent-based technology out there. You have to deploy some sort of code on all of your machines to monitor\/enforce\/&#8230; something. The problem is that nobody likes to run these pieces of code on their machines. There are complicated approval processes, risk analysis issues, security concerns, etc. which have to be overcome. 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