[IP] BBC suspends Blackberry use after email leaks

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Brian Randell <Brian.Randell@newcastle.ac.uk>
Date: October 27, 2005 5:52:58 AM EDT
To: dave@farber.net
Subject: BBC suspends Blackberry use after email leaks


Hi Dave:

From today's (UK) Guardian newspaper:


> BBC suspends Blackberry use after email leaks
>
> Owen Gibson, media correspondent
> Thursday October 27, 2005
> The Guardian
>
> The BBC yesterday admitted that it had been forced to suspend its  
> Blackberry email service after senior executives reported that  
> portions of other people's electronic conversations were appearing  
> in the middle of their own messages.
>
> Among the electronic conversations to have been distributed to  
> other users are said to be one in which BBC1 controller Peter  
> Fincham commented on the suitability of Cilla Black for BBC1.
>
> The combined email, phone and internet device has proved so  
> addictive within certain executive circles that it has been called  
> the "crackberry", with users obsessively checking for new email  
> messages whether at home or on the move.
. . .

Full story at:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1601142,00.html

cheers

Brian

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