mauricemir

Then why does the parliament not have some one looking after it's cyber security and answerable directly to it.

Well they would have to go back to paper and maybe even voting physically rather than pushing a button remotely.

All it takes for a "friend" to donate some new shiny to a MP who then plugs it and its game over.

You need to have a Baord level champion who can steamroller any silos and get stuff done.

American sports fans are not violent in the same way that Football Ultras are.

Yes keep the oily engineers outside other wise they might start wanting the same status as us :-(

What would have been better is 20-25 years ago take ipv6 out back and shoot it and tel the IETF to go back to the drawing board and come up with one tat had a better migration plan

Yes a terrible security risk what happens when some one tailgates a bunch of contractors with a made up pass. Easy way to smuggle bad stuff onto a ship.

Sounds like the start of a NCIS episode.

Given the op's claimed experience if they don't understand that your pc on your desk top is not the same as your dev/test/live systems - it's about time some one pointed this out to them before they get in real trouble at work.

With all due respect You really don't understand the difference between a development server and your personal PC - How many years experience did you say you had?

Sorry I meant that some toys / gadgets have a perceived gender. Home computers became seen as boys toys.

where does it run? on windows or linux?

Sorry if your developing software professionally you DO NOT take risks like that.

Why? I have a lot of experience in the UK and that is how I would see it

If your looking for a site to discuss full on technical programming (aka real Programming) your on the wrong site here.

And back in the day CS was considered the soft option real Engineers had done physics or EE Degrees.