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[SueEllen]

Oh vetran we agree on something

[vetran]

Oh vetran we agree on something

try it you might like it

[ladymuck]

Locking a company phone to stop installs is easy we were doing it 15 years ago. Any attempt to bypass was treated as hacking and prosecuted.

If its government secrets you can dictate exactly what people use to communicate and lock them up if they ignore the instruction, though the threat to make them unemployable on government contracts usually works.

As you say for private industry you change the contracts to make it a sacking offence just as plenty of companies who service governments do.

This is well documented in the public domain its not rocket science.

I know it's common in the private sector but, for some reason, the rules for government and their assorted hangers on are about 20 years behind. I think they only banned used of private email in the early 2000's.

[malvolio]

I know it's common in the private sector but, for some reason, the rules for government and their assorted hangers on are about 20 years behind. I think they only banned used of private email in the early 2000's.

Its's way more complicated than that. There are rules about how you label the Subject Line of an email for example, to meet the various (and ever changing) definitions of security levels, never mind stuff like addressees and the bounds of what can be contained within each of the various groupings.

But - and it's significant - any and every Civil Servant is bound by the OSA. The tool is irrelevant, the dissemination of governmental material is controlled, and if you don't adhere to the rules, you can go to jail.

So giving such material to a reporter outside the ambit of the CS rules is just stupid. But then again, 99% of politicians appear to see stupidity as a desirable.