Personally, I disagree with encouraging people to feel to proprietorial about their work tools. The problem is one of differing (and often conflicting) priorities. As you mentioned in the article, Steve, an individual's attitude to security is what makes them feel personally safe, whilst the company has to insist on what's necessary to safeguard the whole organisation. As soon as you give a person the right to use their own equipment for work purposes, you also extend to them a valid reason for seeing security, privacy and reliability as points for discussion and debate, and that's plain anarchy.

Far better, in my opinion, to make sure people have well specified tools to do their job, and that there is a corporate policy which defines and allows "reasonable personal use" of that corporate asset. People then know exactly where they stand, and if they wish to do something that falls outside the policy, that's the point they can fall back on their own personal kit in their own personal time.

If the company wants to extend a perk, I see no reason why not to let employees buy their personal computing equipment through the company, thereby using the corporate buying power. But using personal kit for work purposes? Nah; bad idea, I reckon.