Politics

[Gemmill 44019]

It's cos they're stuck in the dark ages. Law firms still insist on doing everything by letter, they'll send and ask for cheques too. They just don't want to spend any money on encryption/decryption software. 

 

Business, government, everything runs on encrypted email now. 

[Renton 21000]

3 minutes ago, PaddockLad said:

The now semi-permanent Mrs PL says that many law firms still send legal documents via fax as it’s a lot more secure than email

 

Aye, the NHS too. 

And I've had another ballache trying to get a ticket to download for tonight's match again*. Bring back fucking paper tickets. 

 

* Before Gemmill or someone else mocks me for being IT illiterate, the box office have confirmed its a problem on their side affecting everyone in my situation. Still took them 15 minutes to resolve whilst I was there. 

[PaddockLad 16979]

13 minutes ago, Gemmill said:

It's cos they're stuck in the dark ages. Law firms still insist on doing everything by letter, they'll send and ask for cheques too. They just don't want to spend any money on encryption/decryption software. 

 

Business, government, everything runs on encrypted email now. 

Legal firm has say 200 employees and they all get hit by a phishing email. Someone is going to fall for it and then the whole system is compromised. 
 

Now perhaps you can explain to me how to hack an analogue phone line sending a data signal and then how to translate the data signal into something usable?  

[Gemmill 44019]

2 minutes ago, PaddockLad said:

Legal firm has say 200 employees and they all get hit by a phishing email. Someone is going to fall for it and then the whole system is compromised. 
 

Now perhaps you can explain to me how to hack an analogue phone line sending a data signal and then how to translate the data signal into something usable?  

 

Bank has 6,000 employees. Civil Service has however many thousand employees. 

 

The same applies in every industry. People get trained on responding to phishing emails, and the businesses invest in systems that have safeguards. It's not like legal firms aren't on email either. Or don't have electronic copies of confidential information. 

 

I guarantee this is about an unwillingness to invest in infrastructure, and an ability to dictate the terms on which they do business, much more than it is about security. 

 

Given how few people own a fax these days, and the fact the technology is going to be phased out, they must be doing lots of interaction by email anyway. 

[wykikitoon 19774]

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Chancellor confirms bus fare cap rise to £3published at 13:44

13:44Breaking

The chancellor says the single bus fare cap applied to many routes in England will be raised from £2 to £3 - as first revealed by Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday - extending it for a further year until December 2025.

The cap was introduced under the previous Conservative government and was due to expire at the end of December.

CUNTS

[PaddockLad 16979]

17 minutes ago, Gemmill said:

 

Bank has 6,000 employees. Civil Service has however many thousand employees. 

 

The same applies in every industry. People get trained on responding to phishing emails, and the businesses invest in systems that have safeguards. It's not like legal firms aren't on email either. Or don't have electronic copies of confidential information. 

 

I guarantee this is about an unwillingness to invest in infrastructure, and an ability to dictate the terms on which they do business, much more than it is about security. 

 

Given how few people own a fax these days, and the fact the technology is going to be phased out, they must be doing lots of interaction by email anyway. 

You’re absolutely right that the legal profession have modern office IT systems and have had for many years but you still won’t accept that security is the reason some things are sent by fax after a detailed explanation as to why. I think we need to invent a new word for those such as yourself, but I personally am terming this sort of wilful ignorance “reverse Luddite-ism”  

 

 

[Gemmill 44019]

I think the term you're looking for is "know-it-all cunt". 😎

[Kevin Carr's Gloves 3784]

1 hour ago, PaddockLad said:

Legal firm has say 200 employees and they all get hit by a phishing email. Someone is going to fall for it and then the whole system is compromised. 
 

Now perhaps you can explain to me how to hack an analogue phone line sending a data signal and then how to translate the data signal into something usable?  

Only if all 200 people have the same access rights and the email server is shit a spam protection and they find someone stupid enough.

[Tdansmith 3191]

Rishi Sunak will be fuming about the fact that his tax avoiding wife can't now go back to her non-dom tax status.

[NJS 4351]

I would imagine as soon as the leadership election is over he'll be packing it in and they'll be fucking off to the US as was suggested they'd do if he'd lost his seat.