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The Cabinet Office has created a new governance regime for the Public Sector Network (PSN) as the next step in its development. Work on various elements of the PSN, which is being developed as a 'network of networks' from existing commercial infrastructure to promote collaborative working, will be distributed among the major …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Oh *that* PSN

    I was just wondering how Sony's problems could get worse and that seemed to be the answer.

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  2. Anonymous Coward
    Paris Hilton

    PSN

    Will probably be as secure as the other PSN. Paris cause she can make three letter acronyms too

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  3. MJI Silver badge

    Phew - not another attack

    Just got back online - don't want to lose it again

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  4. Anonymous Coward
    WTF?

    WTF?

    - Ministry of Defence (MoD) – networks, security and green issues.

    Military != Green

    Unless they are now using recycable bullets, tanks now do 75mpg thanks to there hybrid engines and planes now use hydrogen fuels cells made using reneawble sources.

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    1. Father Jed
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      No really

      When did the Army stop wearing green? Sure the Navy and RAF have issues, but credit where it is due.

      You are just not thinking outside the box - just not civil service material.

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  5. Colin Millar
    Big Brother

    Jeff Parris - what a joker

    " individual (local) authorities could be influential in determining the services to be offered"

    I like that "could" just slipped casually in there - translation "could, if hell freezes over,

    Looks like this is just a continuing exercise in lining up ducks anyway.

    Big brother would be watching you but he's got some pencils to sharpen right now.

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  6. Gordon 10

    Insanity

    I thought most of those depts had proved time and time again they shouldnt be let near IT projects.

    DoH - are they mad?

    Mod - they can't procure a beer barrel in a brewery. They have demonstrated failures to procure anything physical let alone IT services.

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  7. Blitheringeejit
    FAIL

    Unlinked data anyone?

    So, one department gets data standards and a different one gets document standards. So much for Saint Tim Berners-Lee and Linked Data ...

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  8. J P

    War and Peace

    "Big brother would be watching you but he's got some pencils to sharpen right now." That'll be a new keyboard thanks

    Oh, and Gordon 10: "Mod - they can't procure a beer barrel in a brewery. They have demonstrated failures to procure anything physical let alone IT services" - maybe the fact that they've proved they can't procure anything physical is the precise reason they've tasked them with intangibles; it's going to be that much harder to prove they've failed...

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  9. Anonymous Coward
    FAIL

    If I'm not mistaken...

    Didn't the gov't lose unencrypted details of child benefit?

    This PSN is going to be about as secure as the other one...

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