Who, Me? The end of a damp weekend (for the UK at least) heralds a new instalment in our ongoing series of Register reader confessions. Welcome back to Who, Me?
Today's story comes from a reader Regomised as "Alan" and concerns the time he was instrumental in the accidental near-shutdown of an entire department of Her Majesty's Government (HMG).
While our tale takes place some decades ago, we'll draw a discreet veil over the department concerned, suffice to say it had outsourced much of its IT services (desktops, servers, mainframes et al) to one of the big boys, as was the fad of the time (and remains so today).
Alan was working for the government in the role of IT Security Consultant. While dutifully reviewing the list of security requirements issued by ..
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