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  A licence to waste (taxpayers) money Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2014-03-16 07:58 +0000
    Re:A licence to waste (taxpayers) money RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-16 17:53 +0000
      Re:A licence to waste (taxpayers) money Biggles <news@packaging.the-shillings.net> - 2014-03-17 00:14 +0000
        Re: A licence to waste (taxpayers) money Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-03-17 09:52 +0000
        Re: A licence to waste (taxpayers) money Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2014-03-17 11:18 +0000

#1656 — A licence to waste (taxpayers) money

"The [UK] Ministry of Defence wasted nearly £50m on a cancelled
cryptographic system to protect top-secret military information from the
growing threat of cyber attack. [...]

The Cipher project, run by the French electronics giant Thales, was axed
last year after the forecast budget for assessment costs alone more than
trebled from £19m to £66m. The MoD has now admitted, however, that it
had already spent £46m before ministers finally accepted that Cipher
would neither provide the comprehensive cyber security needed nor prove
value for money."

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/another-day-another-government-it-cockup-as-minister-admits-writing-off-mods-46m-antihacking-system-9194817.html

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#1686

  ministers finally accepted that Cipher
> would neither provide the comprehensive cyber security needed nor prove
> value for money."

> 


As an American this warms my heart. I thought only my government
 was able to waste money like this.

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#1694

 RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> Wrote in message:
>   ministers finally accepted that Cipher
>> would neither provide the comprehensive cyber security needed nor prove
>> value for money."
> 
>> 
> 
> 
> As an American this warms my heart. I thought only my government
>  was able to waste money like this.
> 

That's probably where we got the idea from!
Biggles
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#1705

In article <lg5epo$fu0$1@dont-email.me>, Biggles
<news@packaging.the-shillings.net> wrote:

> That's probably where we got the idea from!
> Biggles
> -- 


Dear oh dear Biggles!

You're supposed to put the .sig info *after* the separator, not before.

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#1714

On 2014-03-17 00:14, Biggles wrote:
> RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> Wrote in message:
>>> ministers finally accepted that Cipher would neither provide the
>>> comprehensive cyber security needed nor prove value for money."
>> 
>> As an American this warms my heart. I thought only my government 
>> was able to waste money like this.
> 
> That's probably where we got the idea from!

There's a common culture: a largely hereditary, unaccountable ruling
class which can pass the costs of its f*ckups to taxpayers, consumers
and workers.

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