Originally Posted by
Snowdevil
What this ultimately comes down to - potential hacking of personal information aside - is that Alaskasworld.com is an EMPLOYEE site that the public should not have access to.
Whatever your thoughts are on why it's being restricted are irrelevant; the site has always been intended for the use of employees, retirees and family members and the general public has no need for access.
Since the majority of information that was available on the site without a password before March 15 is still easily available on the site today either 1) someone disagrees or 2) Alaska has an incompetent IT operation.
Or perhaps IT is competent, but they themselves disagree with the directive and are only doing some minimal lip service to appear to comply with it.
To the confused and frightened employees who somehow think the change had anything to do with access to their personal information, it simply doesn't. Access to any such personal info always has required a logon.