Posts by Doctor Syntax

Re: If the Tories General Election pledge was to NOT sell of the NHS

"with binding pledges"

The only thing worse that manifesto pledges when coping with reality would be binding manifesto pledges.

Re: Short and sweet.

"Ok explain the Spanish Flu of 1918"

WWI

Lots of soldiers from all over the world brought together and then dispersed. I thought that was common knowledge.

Re: Short and sweet.

Except to move novel viruses or, more specifically, their vectors around the planet. It was mass aviation that got us into this mess.

"Why?"

To get to those private islands, of course.

Re: Outsourcing

"This is a problem over and above the abilities (or lack thereof) of the staff."

If the manglement sees moving its data centre to the cloud or the like as a means of saving money on staff who have the ability to secure their infrastructure, wherever taht may be, and can demand commensurate salaries, then the two are intertwined.

Or someone elsewhere in the business with a company credit card and an app they got somewhere.

Re: And the corporate world ...

"I was discussing increasing the size of the attack surface, not the abilities (or lack thereof) of the staff."

Actually, you framed it in terms of businesses understanding that. But it's not the business as some legal entity that understands things, it'sthe people who work there. It matters if that ability remains in the company after the PHBs have done their thing,

"We might all have a drawer or box of old computer mouses, but they can be counted accurately."

Experience says otherwise.

Re: Revolutionary

The tricky bit's the subtraction.

Re: So much for 'umbrella' services

HMRC don't seem to give 2 shits

FTFY

Re: National Trust

I've no doubt they are farfrom happy but where was this? The NT volunteer URL simply redirects to a dashboard run by Blackbaud and volunteers seem to be covered by a privacy policy which ATM seems to be more aspirational than real.

Re: "don't anticipate any material financial impact" and "do have insurance coverage"

Just pissed off? I'd have thought they should be a little more reactive than that.

Re: No consent for data sharing in the first place

"The problem here is that that data wasn't secured properly, not that they stored it."

The problem was that they didn't store it. They gave it to somebody else to store, presumably to save money.

Re: No consent for data sharing in the first place

The GDPR also has something to say about looking after the data and the responsibilities of data processors. The big failure here has been the Privacy Figleaf saying it's OK to ship the data to some overseas processor providing they abide by certain terms some of which cannot be honoured US-based corporations as court has finally ruled on.* And it was OK if you could only proceed against the overseas processor for breaches in their jurisdiction.

What we haven't heard about yet is what Blackbaud's customers are going to do about taking action. Presumably Blackbaud were in breach of contract. I'd have thought their earnings call would have said "We expect to lose contracts and be sued into oblivion."

* But we knew that anyway,didn't we.

"even official documentation can get it wrong sometimes."

Or maybe not keep up with changes. Too much trouble....

Somebody who answers his own rhetorical questions is never going to let facts get in his way.

Meanwhile in rural areas there'll be those who can only have ADSL. So where should they stand in the queue relative to those already with FTTC upgrading to FTTP?

Re: Elected Members

"Just sign this disclaimer that you refuse to take security training before I set up your email account. Nothing I can do about it, the auditors will check. They seize on that sort of thing with elected councillors, you know."

I was thinking more along the lines of to the pub. The good BOFH never sleeps. It wastes time better devoted to malevolence and sneaking into the building to loosen window catches and recable the boss's office to install listening devices..

Re: Yeah. Been there..

"Only damage was a few scratches."

To the stairs?

Re: Which is why I always turn off email sigs...

The real gems are the corporate sigs that say if you're not the intended recipient you shouldn't read this email. Appended at the end where you only see it after reading the email. Because email clients have a facility for adding sigs but not headers and the thought that would have to go into issuing a corporate template and instructions to prepend it would be too hard.

Re: WAAAAAAAAAH!

Or maybe sue the horse.

I'm not even sure it's buyer's remorse. I think she likes to playheads I win, tails I don't lose.

Re: Yet another reason

I suppose misunderstanding cancels out the privacy issues.

Re: So here is a question for the group.

At first glance my KDE desktop looks quite like W2K as I remember it. On closer inspection it looks more like W2K moved on gently with multiple work spaces & the like. Evolution, not revolution.

Re: "Red Hat did not get where it is today by giving away the OS. "

"So why it was sold instead of walking on its own legs?"

Cashing in plus the head that wore the red hat now has a well upholstered blue one.