Delhi police forget passwords to corruption portal, ignore 600 crimes

Is it just me..

But is IT ignorance becoming the equivalent of 'the dog ate my homework'.

I noticed in the NoW phone hacking trial a similar defence was used as to why emails were not routinely backed up

Sounds similar to how my company works

Step 1. Create system

Step 2. Tell management about great new system

Step 3. Someone should tell the users about the new system or who to ask to get access. (This step rarely happens. After 10 years I still don't know who this is and nobody I ask seems to know either)

Step 4. Ignore whatever that new system was because the users have better things to be doing than trying to find out about it. (Ignore might not be the right word since usually we haven't been told it even exists)

Step 5. Somewhere down the line someone in management says "Can't you get that from system X?" My reply "What's that then?" Manager says "You should get access to it. See if you can find out how to do that."

Step 6. Go To step 3.

Hey! Don't knock Japan !

It's a question of basic prudence. Either Japan is so safe that they can spend time chasing cats, or Japanese cats are so intelligent they are responsible for online hacking.

If it's the second choice, then we're screwed because cats then have a worldwide organisation that beats everything the most harcore NSA spy could dream of. They have informants in every village, speaking the local language, watching YOU right now and reporting back on your activities. They don't need to decrypt anything, they're ON YOUR KEYBOARD, WATCHING YOU TYPE.

I bow before our feline overlords. May there always be tuna.

Delhi police; a legend in their own rather lavishly extensive lunch hour, usually for all the wrong reasons. If it's not a lathi (big stick), a bottle of 'English wine' (whisky) or a brown envelope, they really wouldn't know what to do with it. If anything sends shivers up my back it's the corporate slogan plastered on their cars; "with you, for you, always".

They 'forgot'

Having seen first hand the Deli finest at their finest. I can state with confidence that the real reason is one of the following

'not my responsbility'

'it is some elses responsiblity, but i dont know who that is'

'not being paid (bribed) to do it'

'it will just mean more work for me'

'Why would I, Ive got a second job that earns me more'

The Delhi police doing jack for 8 years is absymally awful, but India’s anti-corruption agency is even worse for not folliwng ANYTHING up!

Does nobody get audited? are there no performance figures? i.e. Number of complaints 600, percent resolved 0%, in progress 0%, outstanding 100%

Police efficiency 0.1% (well, they must do SOMETHING I assume, other than play minesweeper all day)

How on earth can nobody notice for 8 years that jack had a successful outcome/investigation and there were 0 arrests. And I thought the UK police were useless!

Sysadmin motto number # 94

Ignore any problem long enough and it will go away

India Sysadmin Motto #2

System to manage passwords needs a password and I've forgotten it. I thus cannot use systems that need passwords.

(too many months trying to manage a herd on that side of the pond over the phone)

All outstanding complaints were resolved swiftly

UPDATE Complaints SET Status='Resolved'

Phew, they are quick ..

The cat was fitted up

It was the dog wot done it.

Sounds like the old Steve Martin routine.

"I forgot".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l00GGEy_72c

Same old same old

I know I mustn't say they are all like it, but a very large percentage of the Indian programmers somebody I know used to manage in Singapore, if they encountered something they couldn't do, would just sit at their computers looking busy, for months. They would never try to find out.