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jtpenrod:
You've got to see this to believe it: web page
 
quote: The BBC is to ban all staff from using handheld devices if they are not running Microsoft's Pocket PC 2002 operating system, amid fears for the security of its data
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Then, again, what can you expect? These people also drive on the wrong side of the road.  :D    :D    :D    :D    :D    :D    :D    :D

Calum:
What, the BBC drive on the wrong side of the road? how come there's not more accidents then?
 
quote:The BBC has described its decision to outlaw all other personal digital assistants (PDAs) as "purely preventative", and denies that it has experienced security problems with devices in the past.
It claims that uncontrolled PDAs are putting the organisation at risk of virus attacks and infringement of its data.
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This is pretty odd, how can viruses spread more easily, if all the pocket computers are running different OSs? You'd think it would be much easier to attack a system that was all running the same thing... Here comes the funny bit though:
 
quote:Simon Moores, chairman of the Windows NT Forum, has mixed views. "I'm in favour of the consistency, I'm in favour of the security policy," he said, "but I'm not sure I grasp why they're committing to Pocket PC.
"If you're going to have one [a PDA] it doesn't make any difference [in terms of security] because you're still synchronising with Outlook. In fact, I'm not sure that Palm wouldn't be more secure because it is hacked less."
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Nuff said...
It'll all blow over.

Calum:
interestingly enough, i have just come across this article which implies that the BBC use linux for many workstations.  
quote:Damion Yates said:
My team is responsible for the support of the BBC's Unix systems, used for serving web pages, realmedia and now this new digital text service.  We all use Linux at home when on  call at night (to some degree) to support this. I personally have FreeBSD, Solaris-x86 and Linux, but rarely leave Linux....

....Never in a million years had we expected the actual author of the C driver code for the operating system we were using to reply back with such great detail so promptly. I don't think you could _EVER_ get support like that from anywhere else.  Due to  it being Open source, I'd already been able to vastly surpass any possibility, had it been any other vendor OS, of examining the situation myself.
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he sounds like a smart cookie, i bet he avoids road accidents!   :D

[ March 27, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]

Centurian:
Hey,

 
quote:Originally posted by jtpenrod:
You've got to see this to believe it: web page
 

Then, again, what can you expect? These people also drive on the wrong side of the road.   :D      :D      :D      :D      :D      :D      :D      :D  
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There is a certain amount of logic to this. An organization can easily write protective software  for 1 OS but it becomes much more difficult to support a variety of different OS's.

Why they chose MS as the "software of choice"?

Maybe it is easier to write software for MS.

Maybe there were ulterior motives.

We can make all the assumptions we want but who really knows?

Gooseberry Clock:
The BBC are the Microsoft of the UK.

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