Carphone Warehouse has been selling iPhone 3G's on their website since Monday. Whilst everyone else was having fun with O2's website, I slided over to CPW and ordered a 16GB iPhone 3G for delivery on Friday with no problems.
Received an email yesterday to say they had received my phone into stock and it will be despatched today for delivery tomorrow.
I don't understand the whole "the heads at the top must roll" attitude. How is it the chairmans or chancellor's fault that staff can't follow the rules? The only thing I can see they are guilty of is not providing the organisation with the right tools and an understanding of the impact of not following the rules.
Whilst this is a major cluster f**k, this was some run-of-the-mill junior official who can't think outside their own little world. It was sent through the "internal" post (according to reports) which most staff in organisations like this believe is secure. It was against the rules to send data like this. The minion decided (either because they didn't give a crap or that they just needed to get the job done), to send the CD's contrary to the regulations. Of course, they may not have even known about the rules as staff handbooks in place like this a crazy.
If HMRC is anything like the other government departments I have experienced, they probably have no facility at user level to encrypt files. Many places used to have a WinZip client when they were running Windows 2000, allowing at least a basic level of encryption. Now that most organisations have moved to XP, they just include the "Send to compressed (zipped) folder" option built into the OS which has no facility for setting encryption.
Plus there is no (that I know of) cross government file share that a gig or so of data could be shared over. Thus insecure CD's sent through the "internal" mail system.
Stupid it was but easy to understand happening when a low level person is asked by a manager to do a job without the right tools or knowledge.
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Have been since Monday!
Carphone Warehouse has been selling iPhone 3G's on their website since Monday. Whilst everyone else was having fun with O2's website, I slided over to CPW and ordered a 16GB iPhone 3G for delivery on Friday with no problems.
Received an email yesterday to say they had received my phone into stock and it will be despatched today for delivery tomorrow.
Huzzah!
Hang on
I don't understand the whole "the heads at the top must roll" attitude. How is it the chairmans or chancellor's fault that staff can't follow the rules? The only thing I can see they are guilty of is not providing the organisation with the right tools and an understanding of the impact of not following the rules.
Whilst this is a major cluster f**k, this was some run-of-the-mill junior official who can't think outside their own little world. It was sent through the "internal" post (according to reports) which most staff in organisations like this believe is secure. It was against the rules to send data like this. The minion decided (either because they didn't give a crap or that they just needed to get the job done), to send the CD's contrary to the regulations. Of course, they may not have even known about the rules as staff handbooks in place like this a crazy.
If HMRC is anything like the other government departments I have experienced, they probably have no facility at user level to encrypt files. Many places used to have a WinZip client when they were running Windows 2000, allowing at least a basic level of encryption. Now that most organisations have moved to XP, they just include the "Send to compressed (zipped) folder" option built into the OS which has no facility for setting encryption.
Plus there is no (that I know of) cross government file share that a gig or so of data could be shared over. Thus insecure CD's sent through the "internal" mail system.
Stupid it was but easy to understand happening when a low level person is asked by a manager to do a job without the right tools or knowledge.