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Offline naliTopic starter

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Cut 'n' Paste Brexit
« on: December 29, 2020, 02:30:05 pm »
This made me both laugh and cringe... anyone who has had the pleasure of dealing with UK public sector bids or contracts knows there's a lot of cut & paste from either bored civil servants or overpaid consultants. But even so  |O

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-55475433

References to decades-old computer software are included in the new Brexit agreement, including a description of Netscape Communicator and Mozilla Mail as being "modern" services.

Experts believe officials must have copied and pasted chunks of text from old legislation into the document.

The references are on page 931 of the trade deal, in a section on encryption technology.

It also recommends using systems that are now vulnerable to cyber-attacks.

The text cites "modern e-mail software packages including Outlook, Mozilla Mail as well as Netscape Communicator 4.x."

The latter two are now defunct - the last major release of Netscape Communicator was in 1997.

Original tweet here https://twitter.com/billatnapier/status/1342877839008411648
 
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Offline Monkeh

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Re: Cut 'n' Paste Brexit
« Reply #1 on: December 29, 2020, 02:44:27 pm »
Yep, it's a direct copy of https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2008/616/contents/adopted, with some minor edits to suit the wording. Obviously the intention is to maintain the status quo - by complying with EU laws. :-DD
 


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